A Priest for Workers Looks Back
A PRIEST FOR WORKERS, by Father Joseph Falkiner OP. Cluster Publications, Pietermaritzburg. 2021. 245pp Reviewed by Günther Simmermacher Born into a middle-class family in the goldmining town of Springs, Joseph...
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by Gunther Simmermacher · Published March 25, 2022
A PRIEST FOR WORKERS, by Father Joseph Falkiner OP. Cluster Publications, Pietermaritzburg. 2021. 245pp Reviewed by Günther Simmermacher Born into a middle-class family in the goldmining town of Springs, Joseph...
Sr Brigid Rose Tiernan’s book ‘Journey under the Southern Cross, The Story of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur’ was launched at St Vincent’s School for...
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by Gunther Simmermacher · Published June 19, 2021 · Last modified August 16, 2021
BLOODY SUNDAY: The Nun, the Defiance Campaign and South Africa’s Secret Massacre, by Mignonne Breier. Tafelberg, Cape Town (2021). 285pp. Reviewed by Günther Simmermacher It requires courage and...
Reviewed by Günther Simmermacher MUSINGS…In A Strange Time, by Bishop Graham Rose. SA Catholic Online Books (2021). 114 pp. Bishop Graham Rose likes a good conversation, but the opportunities...
This is an immense book on prayer, but don’t let the size of the volume intimidate you. Each and every page is worth reading.
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published December 12, 2020 · Last modified December 10, 2020
BORN TO SERVE, by Walter Middleton. Write-On Publishing (2020). 243pp Reviewed by Günther Simmermacher A Johannesburg deacon has launched his memoirs which detail his journey from poverty...
By Agostino Bono – When it comes to influencing the next papal election, I trust the Holy Spirit over George Weigel. The Holy Spirit, though, is keeping his...
DO YOU SPEAK CATHOLIC? The Little Book of Catholic Words: Definitions, Explanations and Illustrations. Compiled by Frank Nunan. SA Catholic Online Books. 2020. 117pp Reviewed by Günther...
LOURDES 2019, by Paul De Marco. Published by lulu.com. 2018. 168pp Reviewed by Günther Simmermacher In terms of annual visitors, Lourdes is the world’s third-biggest Marian shrine;...
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH—200 YEARS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: The Six Transitional Phases, by Marumagae Moshe. SA Catholic Online Books. 2019. 153pp. Reviewed by Günther Simmermacher South Africans “are...
BECOME LOVE: Gradual Growth and Transformation from John to Francis, by Larry Kaufmann CSsR. Redemptorist Pastoral Publications. 2019. 180pp Reviewed by Tally Palmer I am writing at...
TOWNSHIP GOD: More Than Meets the Eyes, by Paddy Noonan OFM. Write-on Publishing, 2017. 244pp. R195 Reviewed by Mandla Zibi Although it might at first appear so,...
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