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

Pope Francis on Islam

By Fr Anthony Egan, S.J. I really like to see, amidst the populist appeals of many politicians to the lowest – the very lowest – common denominator in humanity, that a public figure has the courage to talk sense about religion. The figure is (I am tempted to say again) Pope Francis. The occasion: his interview […]

HOT off the Press!

AD News 2 of 2016: Indaba 2016; Blessing of Holy Year Church; Cats Metropolitan; Don’t move the Pastor; Dominicans celebrating 800 years; Justice & Peace issues; Holy Cross Jubilarians; Deacons’ Formation; Introducing our Catholic NGOs and Programmes; Celebrating Life in the Catholic School; Immigrants celebrate All Nations Mass; and much more… [gview file=”http://adct.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ad-news-2-of-2016-final-web.pdf”]

PPC Documents

Please find below the PPC documents from the most recent APC meeting. [gview file=”http://adct.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/PPC-training-May-2016.pdf”] [gview file=”http://adct.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/PPC-Voting-Form.pdf”] [gview file=”http://adct.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/PPC-Report-Template.pdf”] [gview file=”http://adct.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/PPC-Nomination-Form.pdf”] [gview file=”http://adct.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/PPC-Nominee-Information-Page-Template.pdf”] [gview file=”http://adct.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/PRAYER-FOR-AFRICA.pdf”]

Archdiocesan Liturgical Commission

The principal role and responsibility of the Liturgical Commission is to assist the Archbishop in the promotion of authentic liturgical life in the Archdiocese of Cape Town. The Commission is among other things: to deal with specific issues and questions concerning the liturgy; to present new liturgical documents and directives and, where necessary, to workshop them; […]

Women’s League Theology

The African National Congress Women’s League defence of Jacob Zuma against religious leaders bears an uncanny resemblance to the ‘State Theology’ of the apartheid era. Though few I suspect (even dare I say it within the ANC) take the ANCWL seriously any more, this thinking needs to be challenged. By the mid-1980s religious communities were […]

Priests’ Indaba

A gallery of pics of the priests of the Archdiocese of Cape Town attending the Priests’ Indaba at Goudini.

Press Statement on SA’s Leadership

OUR LEADERSHIP: “JUDGED BECAUSE OF THEIR VANITY” 6 April 2016 The Jesuit Institute strongly condemns the way South Africa’s leadership has sacrificed “a better life for all” on the altar of selfishness, greed, ego, hypocrisy and dishonesty. What happened in Parliament on Tuesday shows that corruption, like a drug, has colonized the minds of our leadership […]

Archbishop Brislin’s Chrism Mass Homily

After the 2015 Synod on the family, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the Archbishop of Washington DC, gave a press interview in which he spoke of the way in which the Synod was conducted and the open participation that was evident. He said that we are moving away from a Church of legalism to a Church of […]