Mass Readings: 21 December – 28 December, 2025
Liturgical Calendar Year A – Weekday Cycle Year II Sunday December 21, 4th Sunday of Advent Is 7: 10-14 /...
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A Christmas miracle – when enemies became brothers
By Tony Magliano – As the first Christmas of World War I approached, Pope Benedict XV on Dec. 7, 1914, asked...
Our Precious Gift of Freedom
The subject of freedom raises many challenging questions, even more so in our time. The 18th-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau famously...
Fr Peter-John Pearson: Where SA and Vatican Stand Together
At the COP30 meeting in Belém, Brazil, in November, the Vatican and South Africa presented a strikingly aligned message: climate...
Children’s Rosary Movement Reaches South Africa
What began as a small parish initiative in the US state of Connecticut has grown into one of the Catholic...
St Joseph’s Children’s Home: SA’s only Catholic Children’s Hospital
In 1935, five Pallottine Sisters opened a small ward for sick children in Cape Town. Ninety years on, St Joseph’s...
What the Pope Said this Week Part 2
Jason Scott’s weekly review of Pope Leo XIV’s audiences – 10 December — Address to European Conservatives and Reformists Group...
What the Pope Said this Week Part 1
Jason Scott’s weekly review of Pope Leo XIV’s audiences – 6 December — Concert with the Poor; Jubilee Audience Catechesis;...
Pope: Christian Archaeology Can Serve Evangelisation
By Carol Glatz, CNS – Christian archaeology seeks to see, hear and touch the Word made flesh, Pope Leo XIV...
