Posts from 2019
2019 (4)
Friday, 13 December, 2019
In Another Prison - Migrants in Johannesburg On Tuesday, 10 December 2019, in commemoration of the United Nation’s Human Rights Day, the Jesuit Institute South Africa, in collaboration with the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS), premiered their new 21-minute documentary entitled …
9 min (1,572 words)
Read more...Friday, 15 November, 2019
His Holiness, Pope Francis, has appointed Fr Joseph Kizito, as the new Bishop of Aliwal in South Africa.
Msgr. Joseph Kizito had been the Vicar-General for the Diocese of Aliwal for many years. He had also been responsible for efforts to help stateless children, in the same …
2 min (360 words)
Read more...Friday, 25 October, 2019
This post was originally published on spotlight.africa. It was in response to a viral video of a matric student’s final art project that contained imagery of demons and incorporated the Bible in a papier-mâché artwork. The video was taken, without permission, by a …
21 min (3,680 words)
Read more...Friday, 22 March, 2019
A few months ago (on 10 October 2018), Fr Ben Frie SJ, a Dutch Jesuit, wrote to me and asked if I could contribute to an article on Ubuntu that they were planning for their web magazine, Ignis. I had recently finished my thesis at Regis College in Toronto, Canada where I did …
5 min (818 words)
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