Welcome to the Archdiocese of Cape Town

Cape Town is commonly known as the Mother City of South Africa, and is the first ecclesiastical territory to be established in Southern Africa (1818). You are most welcome to this website. It is hoped 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 to 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 we 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.

 

News & Events

CPLO Unpacks the 2020 Budget Speech

South Africa’s Finance Minister Tito Mboweni, in his Budget Speech on 26 February, brought some relief, a few surprises, and indications that the government is finally prepared to put the brakes on unproductive public spending. Mike Pothier, the programme manager for the Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office (CPLO), assesses some of the reassuring signs and areas […]

Homily by SACBC President

“Lead the people of God to a genuine worship and encounter with the true God”. Episcopal Ordination of Mgr Joseph KizitoAliwal North, 15 February 2020Homily by Bishop Sithembele Sipuka, Bishop of Mthatha and SACBC President. 15th February 2020. Mgr Kizito, today as you get ordained one theme that suggests itself from today’s readings is worship, […]

SACBC Lenten Reflections

Attached please find this booklet from the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference titled Choose Life Lenten Reflections 2020, which are Lenten reflections and prayers on non-violence. They have been prepared to reflect South African situations and the experience of many in the country. They are available from the Chancery @ R10 each. Contact 021 462 […]

Holy Childhood Bulletin

Attached please find this interesting newsletter from the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood in Rome

Archdiocesan News 1 of 2020

HOT OFF THE PRESS: A new Pastoral Plan for Southern Africa; Catholic Bishops meet with President Ramaphosa; Archbishop establishes CARITAS CAPE TOWN; Meet our Seminarians; Climate Change awareness raising; CWD Update & Buckets of Love 2019; Men Making a Difference; Peace in our Schools.

SONA was an ‘opportunity lost’ to reassure public – CPLO

The Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office (CPLO) has released its reading of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s 2020 State of the Nation Address (SONA) on 13 February. The CPLO describes the address as a “sombre note” about South Africa’s “dire” public finances. It highlights Ramaphosa’s recognition that consensus by means of social compacts “is a means of achieving progress, but […]

Ministries Day homily by Archbishop Brislin

Homily by Archbishop Stephen Brislin at the Centre for Pastoral Development Ministries Day at Our Lady Help of Christians, Lansdowne on 18 January 2020 Archbishop thanks each person in ministry in the Archdiocese – Service to the Church. Many gifts have been given to us. St Paul 1 Cor 12“There are different kinds of gifts,but […]

WARNING: Con Artist

It has been reported on a number of occasions (since November 2019) that a man is going around to parishes and church institutions with the purposes of soliciting money from them. He is young, of portly build, and goes by different names. He appears to be quite familiar with, or knows a lot about the […]

CWD Buckets of Love

Volunteers were hard at work to make sure that those less fortunate had something to celebrate over the Christmas Season. Here are some pictures of the CWD campaign in motion.

Dominique Yon appointed to the Vatican International Youth Advisory Body

On Sunday 24th November 2019, the Feast of Christ the King, the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life established an International Youth Advisory Body. 20 young people from around the globe were chosen to be part of the body.  Ms Dominique Yon, the assistant to the Youth Chaplain in the Archdiocese of Cape Town, is one […]