June 1 to June 7 , 2011 www.scross.co.za R5,50 (incl Vat RSa) Reg No. 1920/002058/06 No 4728 Don’t miss our bumper Allies wanted How priests Moerdyk on CATHOLIC Pius XII’s are portrayed EDUCATION Friday fasts: Why issue silence on TV punish butchers? next week! Page 5 Page 7 Page 12 OUT ON JUNE 8 New national youth chaplain for SA By MathiBela SeBothoMa Kumalo said. Fr Mabusela HE bishops of Southern Africa have belongs to the Stig - appointed Fr Sammy Mabusela (pic - matine congregation Ttured) as the new chaplain of youth which has a special and students in the region. He replaces charism of youth Schoenstatt Father Michael Hagan who has ministry. According been recalled by his religious congregation. to Fr Patrick Rakeket - Welcoming Fr Mabusela’s appointment, si, local superior, Fr Bishop Xolelo Kumalo of Eshowe, the liai - Mabusela did a ster - son bishop for youth and laity, said: “We ling job when he was must engage with young people as we pre - diocesan chaplain in pare them for future leadership.” Pretoria and when he Bishop Kumalo paid tribute to Fr Hagan, ran a school in Tanzania. saying he “did a very good job” in building Fr Mabusela, a priest for ten years, wants the Association of Catholic Tertiary Stu - to see the youth of the Southern African dents (ACTS) and the National Youth Office. pastoral region “united in their diversity of The bishop stressed that Fr Mabusela, nationality, race, class and language”. who is “very experienced in working with He said many young people desire to youth”, must work with other diocesan and belong to the Church, but are alienated by university chaplains. He says his new work adults. must coordinate and complement what The Internet-savvy priest will ensure that already is being done already by chaplains during his three-year contract the whole in universities and dioceses. person is cared for “at four levels of spirit, He encouraged Fr Mabusela to create a emotion, intellect and body”. platform where chaplains and other youth His office will be based at the SACBC’s leaders will “share their experiences and headquarters, Khanya House, in Pretoria Dancers welcome Bishop abel Gabuza of Kimberley to St Gertrude parish in Coe-heun - ideas on youth ministry.” Fr Mabusela appealed to all youth to sup - ingvlei, the most remote Catholic community in the diocese. it was Bishop Gabuza’s first “I am convinced that Fr Mabusela will do port him in his new challenge. “Young peo - pastoral visit outside Kimberley. the Northern Cape parish is located 420km from Kimberley. a good job with other chaplains and youth ple you are capable you are gifted and you (See report on page 2) structures for our missionary area,” Bishop are very special,” he said. The Southern Cross again a Bishop for Queenstown named By ClaiRe MathieSoN that through his top-performing newspaper leadership Catholics OR the second time this year, a vicar- in that part of the StaFF RePoRteR and after lagging behind for a while, South general of the Pretoria archdiocese has world would be Africa seems to be catching up—we will have Fbeen appointed a bishop. “inspired and moti - OUTH AFRICA’S authorative marketing to investigate the potential for engaging Earlier this year, Mgr Abel Gabuza was vated to a deepening magazine has named The Southern Cross with that technology, as well as with cell - named bishop of Kimberley; now Pope Bene - of their faith as they Sone of its top performers among weekly phone technology.” dict has appointed his successor as vicar-gen - open themselves newspapers for 2010. Reacting to The Southern Cross being eral, Fr Dabula Mpako, as the new bishop of fully to the working It is the second year running that The named one of Marketing Mix ’s top perform - Queenstown—the first bishop of the Eastern of the Spirit of God Southern Cross has been featured in the annu - ing newspapers, Mr Simmermacher said that Cape diocese who is not a Pallottine. in their hearts, in al review of top performing South African “the credit must go above all to the people Eastern Cape-born Bishop-elect Mpako, their lives and in publications of Marketing Mix magazine. who distribute, promote and sell the news - 51, said he sees his appointment as “a new their participation in The magazine identified its top perform - paper every week in the parishes, and the challenge and an opportunity for me to carry the life of the local ers according to circulation figures from the priests who promote it at the end of Mass”. out my priestly ministry on a larger scale Church”. Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC). Their efforts are “absolutely crucial in than has been the case hitherto”. He hoped his Bishop-elect Marketing Mix listed seven weekly newspa - keeping The Southern Cross ’ circulation Fr Mpako has served the Church in many leadership would Dabula Mpako pers as their top performers. Apart from The going”. capacities since his 1986 ordination. He was give all in the diocese Southern Cross , they were Ilanga , Isolezwe “The more people get involved in pro - the rector at St Paul’s Orientation Seminary an experience “of being ‘at home’, where all ngeSonto , Sondag Son , Sondag , Sunday Indepen - moting The Southern Cross at the parish level, Hammanskraal and of St Peter’s Seminary in feel free to express their Catholic faith in a dent , and Sunday Sun . the more Catholic families will have a Garsfontein, chairman of the Priests’ Council meaningful and life-giving way”. He said he The Southern Cross was the only religious Catholic newspaper in their home. So it’s an (2000-06), and director of Pretoria’s first hoped for a local Church where all experi - archiocesan synod. newspaper to be named. important apostolic ministry they are per - ence a real sense of ownership of, responsibil - Fr Mpako served as pastor of Christ the Marketing Mix noted that The Southern forming.” ity for and accountability to the diocese. King and St Mark’s parishes, Mabopane, and Cross ’ circulation figures had remained con - Mr Simmermacher pointed out that the Although excited about his new challenge, sistent, which in the present climate is an circulation figures show that Southern Cross at St Columba’s parish in Capital Park. Most recently he was parish priest of St Thomas Fr Mpako said he would be sad to leave Preto - achievement in itself. readers generally “are very loyal indeed”, ria and would miss the brotherhood of the “Keeping this consistency is demanding, and noted that “the readership seems to be More parish in Monavoni. He said he considers his episcopal local priests and the history with the archdio - but The Southern Cross has managed it getting a lot younger”. cese’s people. extremely well without resorting to retaining Mr Simmermacher praised the adminis - appointment an “encouraging affirmation and validation by the universal Church of “I have lived and ministered in the arch - figures through other means such as sales trative staff under business manager Pamela diocese of Pretoria for all the years that I have below 50% or third-party bulk sales, for Davids for ensuring that the newspaper is the gifts and talents that God has given me, as well as a clear acknowledgement of the been a priest. Pretoria has therefore become example,” Marketing Mix wrote. produced and distributed every week. for me a home and a familiar territory for my It noted that in March 2010, The Southern He noted that the editorial team had lost love for and commitment to the Church that I have shown over the almost 25 years that I daily experiences. Obviously, leaving Pretoria Cross launched its subscription-only digital key members in Michail Rassool and Gene will for a moment feel like being uprooted.” edition. Donnelly in 2010, but the staff members have been a priest—sometimes through very trying and discouraging circumstances”. He is ooking forward to creating the same “The feedback has been excellent, and we who succeeded them—Claire Allen and kind of bond in Queenstown. are now looking at ways to promote the Dig - While not yet familiar with the diocese of Claire Mathieson—had “brilliantly filled the “What I have learned from my experience ital Southern Cross more aggressively, espe - Queenstown, which has been without a bish - gaps left by these two stalwarts”, who in the archdiocese of Pretoria is the vital cially among expatriates,” Southern Cross edi - op since the retirement of Bishop Herbert between them had 50 years of service at the importance for the bishop to have a close tor Günther Simmermacher told Marketing Lenhof, Fr Mpako said that the beginning of newspaper. relationship with the clergy and the religious Mix . his ministry would be dedicated to familiaris - “Behind circulation figures,” said Mr Sim - who are his immediate collaborators in his “While in terms of content, we believe we mermacher, “there are many people who ing himself with the diocese. ministry of being chief pastor of the diocese. have appeal across age groups, we realise work hard: the people who write articles or “In particular, I will have to listen openly I hope to be able to foster and promote a real that within our target market there will place photos, the person who takes the week - and actively to the clergy and the religious sense of fraternity among all the priests and increasingly be different reading preferences. ly orders for the newspaper and those who who have worked in the diocese and who are The Digital Southern Cross is one way of distribute it, the parishioner who sells The more familiar with the strengths, the prob - religious in the diocese.” diversifying to meet different needs,” Mr Southern Cross before and after Mass.