Family Matters

OVERVIEW:  God is Family.  God, as Trinity is a family and every human family, not only as individuals but as a unit, is an image of God and mirrors the relationship of the Trinity. St Francis in his Canticle of the Creatures,  praises God in these...

Bringing up a family anywhere in the world in our day is a very complex matter as everyone, parents, teachers and children themselves well know.  It is said that a contributing factor to this is that children are perceived to have too many rights, and parents and...

FAMILY WEEKELY E-NEWSLETTER 22 MARCH 2023 Sandwiched between religious feastdays of Joseph on 19th and Mary on 25th is a South African national commemoration,  Human Rights Day on 21st March.  Should this kind of day not also be a recognized as religious?  It...

To understand the strong human rights focus in South Africa, one does need to study the SA Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Described as the cornerstone of democracy it enshrines the rights of all people in the country and affirms the values of human dignity,...

  We’re into February, the month of love.  No point in dismissing it as even Pope Francis accepts its value. He wrote Traditional practices like St Valentine’s Day should not be underestimated. Commercial interests are quicker to see the potential than we...

After his beatification in 2015 the process for canonization of the South African Benedict Daswa, who was killed for his refusal to support witchcraft, is ongoing.  In 2015 Bishop Joao Rodriguez of Tzaneen diocese said he hopes devotion to “this apostle of life” will...