Archbishop Denis Hurley OMI had a vision of the Church as a
“community serving humanity”  You can help make this vision a
reality.  At the heart of the city of Durban, South Africa,
where half a million people make their way through one of
Africa’s busiest transport hubs nearby every day,  is Emmanuel
Cathedral. Many of these people are hungry, ill or homeless.
They are the poor of Durban and refugees from other parts of
Africa. They look to the cathedral for help and support.  For
many years the cathedral has had a parish centre that offers
food and training to homeless and unemployed people and which
welcomes and cares for newly-arrived refugees. A clinic provides
medical care, especially for those living with AIDS.  Now it is
planned to build a completely new centre that will transform the
standard of services the Cathedral is able to offer to the poor,
to the sick, and to refugees. The new building will be called
the Denis Hurley Centre in honour of the Archbishop who was a
visionary leader of the Catholi