Church on the Ball. "The Catholic Church is relatively young in South Africa most of our places in centenaries are going 150 years of birth at the most. So its a rather relatively young church and yet …More
Church on the Ball.
"The Catholic Church is relatively young in South Africa most of our places in centenaries are going 150 years of birth at the most. So its a rather relatively young church and yet a very vigorous one". -Wilfrid Fox Cardinal Napier o.f.m - Durban
"We are about 10% of the total population 15 million people in South Africa, I think the Church has been growing steadily, we are about 29 dioceses". - Archbishop Buti Joseph Tlhagale, o.m.i Johannesburg
"Today most of the church probably about 70% of the Church is based in rural areas and most of the work of the Church is in places where no one else will go. And we have about 30 % in Urban areas dealing with everything from Universities to Hospitals to Clinics to Schools and we have about 1200 parishes all to over in South Africa". - Fr. Chris Townsend, Information Officer SACBC"
"... very often the social coping skills are not there so that's the major part of the work of the Church. A lot of our work is also dealing with migrants and refugees and reminding of our selves that we have a very big issue in Southern Africa in terms of where people are coming from; why they are coming and what we as Church can respond to. Because very often the local community has the best response but also that's the most dangerous place in terms of Xenophobia and that's where we are very concerned about. We work very hard in doing peace building workshops to try and show to the world and to our communities especially that we can work and learn and be together". - Fr. Chris Townsend, Information Officer SACBC"
"We will live through life not only as Christians we know that we are brothers whether white or colour black, Indian we are one". - Fr. Thaddeus Chukwuma Oranusi, Somerset West
"There are opportunities in South Africa that may not exist in other parts of the world. We are forming a new society we are looking at new ways of doing things". - Joan Armstrong- Director, Centre for Pastoral Development, Archdiocese of Cape Town
"I think one of the things that we have been quite well known for is that our Bishop's Conference has been a very united one and that gave us the strength to punch well above our weight if may use that our example in terms of the contribution we made during the struggle against apartheid and towards the democracy that we have today". -Wilfrid Fox Cardinal Napier o.f.m - Durban
"To try and urge the government why there's laws in place we'll not feel there's enough attention paid to this urge. We do not feel that the campaign mounted by ordinary organisation is not complimented by the government's strong hand against people who traffic with women and children". Archbishop Buti Joseph Tlhagale, o.m.i Johannesburg
"Sport can really lift the spirit of the people and that this tournament is going to be that silver lining for those people going through difficult times and perhaps a little bit negative about the political situation in the country. So i think that all will be pushed aside and I think this will be a …
"The Catholic Church is relatively young in South Africa most of our places in centenaries are going 150 years of birth at the most. So its a rather relatively young church and yet a very vigorous one". -Wilfrid Fox Cardinal Napier o.f.m - Durban
"We are about 10% of the total population 15 million people in South Africa, I think the Church has been growing steadily, we are about 29 dioceses". - Archbishop Buti Joseph Tlhagale, o.m.i Johannesburg
"Today most of the church probably about 70% of the Church is based in rural areas and most of the work of the Church is in places where no one else will go. And we have about 30 % in Urban areas dealing with everything from Universities to Hospitals to Clinics to Schools and we have about 1200 parishes all to over in South Africa". - Fr. Chris Townsend, Information Officer SACBC"
"... very often the social coping skills are not there so that's the major part of the work of the Church. A lot of our work is also dealing with migrants and refugees and reminding of our selves that we have a very big issue in Southern Africa in terms of where people are coming from; why they are coming and what we as Church can respond to. Because very often the local community has the best response but also that's the most dangerous place in terms of Xenophobia and that's where we are very concerned about. We work very hard in doing peace building workshops to try and show to the world and to our communities especially that we can work and learn and be together". - Fr. Chris Townsend, Information Officer SACBC"
"We will live through life not only as Christians we know that we are brothers whether white or colour black, Indian we are one". - Fr. Thaddeus Chukwuma Oranusi, Somerset West
"There are opportunities in South Africa that may not exist in other parts of the world. We are forming a new society we are looking at new ways of doing things". - Joan Armstrong- Director, Centre for Pastoral Development, Archdiocese of Cape Town
"I think one of the things that we have been quite well known for is that our Bishop's Conference has been a very united one and that gave us the strength to punch well above our weight if may use that our example in terms of the contribution we made during the struggle against apartheid and towards the democracy that we have today". -Wilfrid Fox Cardinal Napier o.f.m - Durban
"To try and urge the government why there's laws in place we'll not feel there's enough attention paid to this urge. We do not feel that the campaign mounted by ordinary organisation is not complimented by the government's strong hand against people who traffic with women and children". Archbishop Buti Joseph Tlhagale, o.m.i Johannesburg
"Sport can really lift the spirit of the people and that this tournament is going to be that silver lining for those people going through difficult times and perhaps a little bit negative about the political situation in the country. So i think that all will be pushed aside and I think this will be a …