Yesterday, 1 December 2019, the first Sunday of Advent and the start of the Church’s new liturgical year, and during the national 16 days of activism in South Africa against Gender Violence, the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) released a ... More »
His Holiness, Pope Francis, has appointed Fr Joseph Kizito, as the new Bishop of Aliwal in South Africa. Msgr. Joseph Kizito had been the Vicar-General for the Diocese of Aliwal for many years. He had also been responsible for efforts to help stateless childre... More »
Mike Pothier comments that the media storm around the controversial display of an indigenous Andean goddess at the Amazon Synod distracted the Catholic world from the weightier issues discussed at the Synod. The real idolatry, he says, is not a wooden carving,... More »
The Final Document of the Amazon Synod provides, among other things, a powerful contribution to Catholic social teaching and the Church’s pastoral response to the communities directly affected by the extractive industry. Stan Muyebe OP comments that African ec... More »
Catholic Welfare and Development (CWD) was forced to shut down late last year. Mismanagement had brought this life-giving welfare wing of the Catholic Church to collapse. This was a huge blow to many poor people across the Cape Flats. Spotlight.africa reported... More »
Salesian Life Choices, a youth development non-profit organization based in Cape Town, brings you a story of hope from the Cape Flats. Raegan Beck, a young man from Manenberg shares just what it takes to thrive in an area under siege by gangsters and poverty. ... More »
The recently concluded Amazon Synod resulted several recommendations on pastoral solutions to some of the problems faced by the people of God in this isolated and largely disenfranchised region of the world. Annemarie Paulin-Campbell closely examines the final... More »
South African social media was awash this week with speculation about a final art project by a Richard’s Bay matriculant. Charges of ‘satanism’ abounded and there was a rush, it seemed, to crucify the learner and his school. Matthew Charlesworth SJ examines wh... More »
All South Africans today have access to health care. For some, it is world class. For others it is barely adequate. Nevertheless, as Shrikant Peters describes, the provision of health care in South Africa began haphazardly in the late 19th century and would no... More »
With Rosh Hashanah on 30 September and Yom Kippur on 8 October, the Jewish community is currently marking the high point of its liturgical year. Apart from taking vague note of this and perhaps wishing them well, does this season have any deeper meaning for fo... More »
Br. Luc Bourgoin, from the Taizé Community in France, has been working in Cape Town for the past 18 months to prepare a Pilgrimage of Trust, which took place from 25-29 September. He describes how Taizé has had ties with South Africa since the 1970s, and how t... More »
This is the second of a three-part series, containing stories of hope by the participants at the recent Taizé Pilgrimage of Trust held in Cape Town between 25-29 September. The stories were written during one of the workshops held at Holy Redeemer parish (Berg... More »