Pallottine Sisters’ First 100 years in South Africa
In 1923, the first six Pallottine Sisters arrived in South Africa. Ronell Petersen tells their story. In 1922, Bishop Franziskus...
Southern Africa's Catholic Magazine
Peace Be with You! Third Sunday of Easter
Sermon By Emmanuel Suntheni OSB – Third Easter of Sunday – Year B Sermon and Christian Act In The Word Theme:...
‘Patriarch of the West’ reappears as papal title in Vatican yearbook
By Cindy Wooden, CNS – The 2024 edition of the Vatican yearbook has inserted “Patriarch of the West” as one...
Cardinal Wilton Gregory: Parish priests are lifeline to church’s mission
By Carol Glatz, CNS – The success of the Synod of Bishops on synodality will much depend on also including...
Ecology: We must work together
The Regular readers of my column may know that I have covered a very broad range of subjects over the...
Migrants: unappreciated, hardworking, and needed
By Tony Magliano – You may have recently heard the news that a fully loaded container ship plowed into a...
Vatican: Abortion, Surrogacy, War, Poverty are Attacks on Human Dignity
By Cindy Wooden , CNS – Being a Christian means defending human dignity and that includes opposing abortion, the death...
Old truth, new insight: Cardinal says human dignity text is result of growth
By Cindy Wooden, CNS – The 116 footnotes in the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith’s declaration on human...
When SA took in 500 Polish Orphans
In April 1943, a ship carrying 500 Polish orphans landed in South Africa to find a home in Oudtshoorn. Finlay...
