The church needs to further integrate women into ecclesial life to confront the problems of clericalism and an exaggerated sense of masculinity, a Vatican official told the Synod of Bishops. In his address to...
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...
MISSION SUNDAY ISSUE: » Countdown of Top 40 Marian Shrines begins » What’s needed for a good lay spirituality » History of religious orders in SA » Why Mary is the Mother of God...
Liturgical Calendar Year B Weekday Cycle 2 Sunday, October 21, 29th Sunday of the Year Isaiah 53:10-11, Psalm 33:4-5, 18-20, 22, Hebrews 4:14-16, Mark 10:35-45 Monday, October 22, St John Paul II Ephesians 2:1-10, Psalm...
Family ministry activist Buyisile Patronella Nkosi died on September 25 after a long illness. Buyi Nkosi, with her husband Jabu, worked tirelessly for the Catholic Church Family Ministry, both nationally and in the...
Pope Francis and many people attending the canonisation Mass in St. Peter’s Square were alive when St Paul VI and St Oscar Romero were alive, but the new saints’ relics and those of five...
Christen Torres / Politics / Women and the Church
by Christen Torres · Published October 18, 2018 · Last modified October 12, 2018
With renewed moves to decriminalise prostitution and the African National Congress at last year’s national conference pledging support for that, the Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office (CPLO) has warned that there are no easy policy solutions.
The church and its pastors should “courageously propose the Christian ideal corresponding to Catholic moral doctrine and not water it down, hiding the truth to attract young people to the bosom of the church,”...
Bishops / Church / Women and the Church
by hazelelponiSC · Published October 17, 2018 · Last modified October 16, 2018
Although bishops should make up the majority of voting members at a Synod of Bishops, the fact that the body is only consultative means women should be included as full members just as priests...
A TV programme on October 21 will reflect on this year’s bicentennial of the Catholic Church in South Africa. The programme, part of the weekly Hosanna show, will include footage of the Bicentennial Mass...
Three Catholic missions in Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal are the sites for successful computer schools for disadvantaged rural youth, established by the Netherlands’ HomePlan Foundation. Students study for six months to sit exams for the...
by Nthabiseng Maphisa · Published October 17, 2018 · Last modified October 16, 2018
I have always wondered who the original composer of the “Happy Birthday” song was. Year after year, many people around the world will have this song yelled and screeched at them. It is...
By Jo Tuckman – Leonor Chacón remembers every emotion she felt on March 24, 1980, as if it were yesterday. It started, she recalls, with the happiness that always accompanied the expectation that Archbishop Óscar...
