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

Report Back from APC meeting Nov 2014

Archbishop Stephen Brislin gave us a wonderful overview of the recent Extraordinary Synod of Bishops held in Rome.  His power point presentation and a short video of the event can be downloaded at the link below. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jcssojgrdmyiwew/AAC2yhLrTrNiMydGoIz8akSea?dl=0 Fr Hugh O Connor gave us an in-depth workshop on the Child Safeguarding Policy and discussion followed on the most effective way […]

Holy Childhood Mass

Archbishop Stephen Brislin celebrated the Holy Childhood Mass at Our Lady Help of Christians Church, Lansdowne on Saturday 25 October 2014.

Crime and Family Life

by Frances Correia The murder of Senzo Meyiwa is front page news, and dominating social media. His shocking death has stunned us as a nation. Here is a young man who was a symbol of hope and an inspiration for many other young South Africans. His tragic death reminds us all of the reality we […]

Archbishop Brislin: Synod finding new ways to help families

Below is a transcript of an interview Archbishop Brislin gave to Vatican Radio.   (Vatican Radio) The concerns and the challenges of the family in Southern Africa have been brought to the Synod arena by the Archbishop of Cape Town, Stephen Brislin, who is also the President of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC). […]

Family Synod: What will be thwarted?

by Fr Russell Pollitt, SJ “Synod assemblies are not meant to discuss beautiful and clever ideas; or to see who is more intelligent,” Pope Francis said last Sunday at the opening mass of the Synod on the Family. This Synod is important and is being watched closely by people from all walks of life, not […]

Invitation To All Catechists

Please find attached details of this most exciting event planned for the beginning of the new term. [gview file=”http://adct.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Meditation-15-16Oct.pdf”]

Holy Childhood Mass

Below please find a letter and poster giving details of the upcoming Holy Childhood Mass [gview file=”http://adct.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Poster-Holy-childhood.doc”] [gview file=”http://adct.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Holy-CHildhood-2014-Letter.doc”]

Spred-ing the Good News

Below are some pictures of the SPRED annual Mass of Thanksgiving which was celebrated by chaplain Fr Mark Foster at St John’s, Maitland on Saturday 20 September 2014 SPRED (Special Religious Development) is a catechesis specially designed for the disabled. Photos by Stephen Engelbrecht.  

National Week of the Older Person

Please find below daily reflections for the National Week of the Older Person, 29 September – 5 October [gview file=”http://adct.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/National-seniors-week.pdf”]

Ecclesia Youth video

Attached is an introductory video for Ecclesia: Brave New Church for Youth and Young Adults. Themes: 1. Fearless Love 2. Renew the Face of the Earth 3. An Instrument of Transformation 4. If you suffer, I suffer 5. Sisters and brothers on a journey 5. We are all Africans.