Thousands of Catholics attended the funeral of Archbishop Emeritus Henry Ernst Karlen, CMM in Bulawayo recently. Archbishop Karlen, who became the first Metropolitan Archbishop of Bulawayo in 1994, died aged 90 at Mater Dei Hospital on Sunday, October 28. Known as the “Father of Bulawayo Diocese” for his work building the church in Matabeleland, Karlen ...

In continuation of a series about Zimbabwean connections to Pope John Paul II, RelZim.org interviewed Joseph Bunga, publisher of a lifestyle monthly Hello Harare! When Fr. Krystian Traczyk was the parish priest at Plumtree, Joseph Bunga was in form 3 there . “I was one of the students who arranged for him to come to the ...

First in a series about Zimbabwean connections to Pope John Paul II, who will be beatified in Rome on May 1. Zimbabwe is now home to a number of missionaries from John Paul II’s native Poland. RelZim.org talked to the first missionary of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) ...