News and Events

Draft Child Safeguarding Policy for Parishes in the Archdiocese of Cape Town

SACBC mourns death of Prof. Russel Botman

The Broken Body
by John Moffat SJ ‘When I was a stranger you made me welcome’. This year at the end of Refugee week we celebrate the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ. All around the Catholic world, parishes honour the real and life-giving presence of the risen and glorified body of Christ in our midst. […]

Winter Living Theology 2014
Below are some pictures taken at the Winter Living Theology lectures at Schoenstatt, Cape Town, with Prof. Al Gini. Click on image to enlarge.

Archdiocesan Health Care Association
Below are pictures taken at the Archdiocesan Catholic Health Care Association (ACHCA) meeting on 10 May 2014 at Nazareth House, Cape Town. Submitted by the association’s chaplain, Mgr Jock Baird.

Nurturing the Fruits of the Holy Spirit
by Frances Correia Fundamental to our Christian life is the reality that God is both interested in, and actively involved in, our lives. Jesus came to tell us about God’s dream for the world: a dream that Jesus called ‘the kingdom of God’. Our human task is to collaborate with the Holy Spirit to bring […]

The Faith Delusion?
CDs from Winter Living Theology 2013 ‘The Faith Delusion?’ with John Moffatt SJ Last year Fr John Moffatt travelled five cities across South Africa helping people to explain faith in the face of reason. His lectures were deep and insightful and were not afraid to tackle difficult topics such as evolution, science, revelation, and conflicts between Church teaching and modern […]

Newsletter from Archbishop Brislin
No. 2 of 2014

Year of the Deacon
Pray for your deacons. Download, and print the pdf (through Adobe Acrobat Reader), and insert in your daily missal or prayer book.

Ecclesia – Brave New Church
Announcing a new season of Ecclesia
‘Our’ Girls
‘Our’ girls by Raymond Perrier. It is not surprising that, the world over, people are concerned about the 230 teenage girls abducted in Northern Nigeria. Although this incident has happened tens of thousands of miles away from the centres of economic and media power, everyone from Michelle Obama to girls in South African schools have been […]

Archdiocesan News
HOT OFF THE PRESS! Edition 2 of 2014. Top stories: Archbishop meets Pope Francis; All about our website; Bishops’ Ad Limina visit; Year of the Deacon; Vocations; St Teresa of Avila launch; Farewell to Archbishop Henry; Ecclesia: Brave New Church; and much, much more! This edition has been uploaded as two sections: pages 1-6 and […]

Vocations Sunday
This Fourth Sunday of Easter, May 11, 2014, the Church marks the 51st World Day of Prayer for Vocations. The Holy Father has released a Message on the theme ‘Vocations, Witness to the Truth’, which is available on the Vatican website. In his Message, Pope Francis states: ‘God follows the work of his hands with […]

20 Years of Democracy
Joint Pastoral Letter of the Bishops of the SACBC (Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference) and Leadership Conference on Consecrated Life

Your Guide to the Elections 2014
How to cast your vote – based on Catholic Social Teaching – a guide to making moral choices Brought to you by the Justice & Peace Commission – Research by the the Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office

Winter Living Theology 2014 update
WINTER LIVING THEOLOGY 2014 Co-ordinated by the Jesuit Institute A three-day course for priests, religious and interested lay people to explore the philosophy and theology of leadership. Today, 20 years after liberation, in the aftermath of the death of Nelson Mandela, and in the wake of the 2014 elections, South Africans are still asking about […]
Welcome to the Archdiocese of Cape Town.
As the Archbishop of the Mother City of South Africa, of the first ecclesiastical territory to be established in Southern Africa (1818), I welcome you to this website.
It is my hope that it will inform you and provide you with any information you may require regarding this segment of the Catholic Church.
We also provide links with other websites which might interest you. If you require any information not included here, email us and we will do what we can to help.
If you have discovered this page by accident, you are especially welcome and I hope you will find it of some value and maybe help you to understand how the Catholic Church in Cape Town is trying to serve the community and so bring it closer to the Lord.
With my very sincere and best wishes
+Stephen Brislin
ARCHBISHOP OF CAPE TOWN