2016 ARCHDIOCESAN DIRECTORY now available from the Catholic Bookshop (021 465 5904). Only R100. Contains contact details for all things Catholic in the Archdiocese of Cape Town: Administration; Chaplaincies; Development and Educational Programmes; Homes; Bookshops; Priests & Deacons’ contact details; Religious of the Archdiocese; Detailed parish section; Mass times throughout the Archdiocese; Catechetics Co-ordinators; Schools; […]

Below are some pictures from the Catechetical Co-ordinators’ Meeting held at St Ignatius on Saturday 20 February 2016. We were very happy to have over 70 co-ordinators from about 38 parishes attend the meeting.

It’s strange, watching a film based on events of which you were part, however peripherally. The film Spotlight has that effect on me: I was in Boston the year the Boston Globe newspaper revealed the extensive cover-up by Church authorities of child-abusing priests in the archdiocese. With minimal sensationalism Spotlight tells the story of how […]

Enjoy this panorama video of St Mary’s Cathedral, Cape Town. It is a 360VR pic. Click the full screen button on the picture (rhs button), then with the mouse pointer on the picture, press left mouse button down and drag left, right, up and down.

By Fr Russell Pollitt, S.J. I am a ‘white’ South African. I am angry. I am disillusioned. I cannot believe that one stupid, senseless, racist fool could throw a country backwards, into a vicious circle of despair, because she splashed her bigoted, undignified and racist views on Facebook. It’s utterly unacceptable. Penny Sparrow’s racist comment […]

Archbishop Brislin is at present part of an international group of Bishops visiting various parts of the Holy Land with a view to supporting the work of the church in very troubling conditions, especially through prayer. It also seeks to do advocacy in support of the Church’s commitment to justice and peace in the region. […]

“THE PURSUIT OF COMMON GOOD MUST BE THE PRIMARY GOAL” The Jesuit Institute South Africa joins the chorus of voices from all sectors of South African society expressing serious concern over the removal of Nhlanha Nene as the country’s Minister of Finance. This move, announced by President Jacob Zuma, spells disaster for the stability of […]

Celebrating the richness of Music and Voice, Concert in a Convent Garden will take place on 31 January 2016 at 17.30 in the gardens of Springfield Convent in Wynberg. It will take the form of an outdoor picnic concert in the late afternoon where you can enjoy a glass of wine and delicacies from the […]

“Live God’s Mercy so that the Church is Credible!” 8 December 2015 The Catholic Church throughout the world formally begins the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy today, 8 December, Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Pope Francis invites the whole Church to refashion itself as a place not of judgment or condemnation but of pardon and […]

At the beginning of the week Pope Francis ended a six-day apostolic visit to our continent. He visited Kenya, Uganda and the war-torn Central African Republic (CAR). In all three countries large numbers turned out, lining streets – often rows deep – to see the Pope. Pope Francis is the first pope in living memory […]