Church / Editorials 2018 / Holiness and Sanctification
by Michael Shackleton · Published June 24, 2018 · Last modified June 23, 2018
The grapevine in any big organisation, including the Church, is a rumour-mongering engine that tickles the ears of one and all. Because it does not contain formal or decisive statements from the top, it thrives on a handful of unverifiable “facts”.
Pope Francis / Women and the Church
by Kilian SC · Published June 24, 2018 · Last modified June 20, 2018
Exploiting women or treating them like objects is a sin against God, Pope Francis said in his homily during morning Mass at Domus Sanctae Marthae. It will do people good – especially those who enjoy freedom – to reflect on how many women have become “slaves of this throwaway mentality,” he said.
Christian Living / Letter of the Week / Love
by Letters Editor · Published June 23, 2018 · Last modified June 24, 2018
The older I get, the more it amazes me just how much love there is about, and considering that it’s Our Lord’s greatest gift to us, I am equally amazed at how little organised religion concentrates on this fact.
The bicentenary celebrations at the Bellville Velodrome on June 24 at 2:00pm are the culmination of a year-long jubilee to mark the 200th anniversary of the Catholic Church being established in South Africa. You...
Pope Francis denounced the practice of administering prenatal tests to determine birth defects that often lead to abortions, comparing it to the Nazi-era eugenics program that determined what lives were worth keeping or eliminating.
Christian Living / Global Issues / Pope Francis / Science & Faith / Technology & Christian Life
by Jael SC · Published June 23, 2018 · Last modified June 22, 2018
From Pope Gregory XIII’s observational tower built in the Vatican Gardens in the 16th century so celestial studies could aid the reform of the calendar to Pope Leo XIII, who officially re-founded the Vatican Observatory in the late 19th century, popes have kept their eyes fixed on the heavens.
Liturgical Calendar Year B Weekday Cycle 2 Sunday, June 24, Birth of St John the Baptist Isaiah 49:1-6, Psalm 139:1-3, 13-15, Acts 13:22-26, Luke 1:57-66,80 Monday, June 25 2 Kings 17:5-8, 13-15, 18, Psalm...
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Winston and Muriel Maritz of Cape Town are preparing to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. They married on June 22, 1968, at St Mary’s church in Retreat, with the ceremony officiated by Fr Feeny...
The Southern Cross has been publishing cartoons on its back page drawn by Conrad Burke since the early 90s. We have decided to make them available online! Mr Burke is a parishioner at Most...
Christian Living / Church / Faith Life
by Kilian SC · Published June 21, 2018 · Last modified June 20, 2018
A study by the Pew Research Center found that young adults worldwide are generally less religious than older adults by a variety of measures.
Christian Living / Sarah-Leah Pimentel
by Sarah-Leah Pimentel · Published June 21, 2018 · Last modified June 20, 2018
South Africa needs a process to find healing and forgiveness, to be transformed by one another, and together find solutions to the deep problems of our beloved country. I’m not really sure how we...
A new Vatican document cautions against the dangers of highly competitive children’s sports, political and economic pressures on athletes to win ‘“at all costs” and the unsportsmanlike or violent behaviour of fans. The document...
