reprinted with additions from the Catholic Herald  Robert Mercer, the fourth Anglican bishop of Matabeleland, was ordained a priest for the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in the UK end of last month.  The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham is a personal ordinariate of the Roman Catholic Church immediately subject to ...

Between  Nov. 18-20,  the head of the Roman Catholic Church Benedict XVI was on a visit to Benin, the pope’s second outing to Africa. The official motive was to present the conclusions from a 2009 Synod of Bishops for Africa, which Benedict did in the form of a 138-page document titled Africae Munus, ...

You don’t need an archbishop’s visit to fill the churches of Harare. For the most part, there was nothing unusual about this Sunday afternoon at 1 pm. There was the weekly changing of the shifts at the International Conference Center at the Rainbow Hotel: thousands of faithful from the New ...

At the beginning of May, Mr. James Kuseri, who this month completes 30 years of service to the Apostolic Nunciature in Harare,  was awarded the Vatican Benemerenti medal.   Mr Kuseri joined the Nunciature in Harare  on May 3 1981, as the official driver of the papal embassy. He has been with the ...

James Kirchick, who has reported from Zimbabwe, in a recent article entitled “Love the Sinner. Why is Robert Mugabe visiting the Vatican?” analyzes the uneasy relationship between the Vatican and Zimbabwe’s President. “Robert Mugabe has long been an admirer of the Catholic Church. Born at a Catholic mission station in ...

The late Pope John Paul II was beatified yesterday in St. Peter’s Square before a crowd of one million Catholics and world leaders which included President Mugabe. The Herald reports that President Mugabe was accompanied at the ceremony by First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe and their sons Chatunga and Robert ...

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) ...