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

Learning from the 2016 Elections

To the African National Congress last week must surely feel as, at worst, the rumour of defeat to come, at best a loud political wake-up call. Other parties need to take note too. Everyone knew the ANC would retain Durban and Bloemfontein without serious opposition, just as everyone assumed the Democratic Alliance would hold onto […]

Pope on Armenian Genocide

Earlier this week Pope Francis on a return trip from Armenia took a series of questions from journalists. Some of his responses, especially his comment about asking forgiveness of gay people and their families provoked a media storm. Yet, in reading the whole interview, I was struck by his consistent concern for all those who […]

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.