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The Murder Of A Catholic Priest Highlights Rising Violence Against Christian Clerics In South Africa

Kiltegan Father murdered before Mass in South Africa

The legacy of an Irish missionary in South Africa

On 16 November, the Diocese of Tzaneen in South Africa celebrates the 50th anniversary of its establishment by decree of Pope Paul VI with Irish-born, John Durkin, as its first bishop. This is a typical story of how Irish and other missionaries built the Catholic Church across the continent of Africa. It also illustrates how their legacy lives on through the ministry of local and indigenous priests, nuns and brothers whom they recruited and trained.

The legacy of an Irish missionary in South Africa

Archbishop Mpako: "outgrow the approach of seeing the Church as some kind of a spiritual supermarket"

“May we completely outgrow the approach of seeing the Church as some kind of spiritual supermarket where we shop for spiritual good, but for which we assume no responsibility, and of which we have no sense of ownership. May we cease to view the Church as some sort of a spiritual bus in which we are passively carried from one destination to another. A spiritual bus in which you are carried from earth to heaven,”