Why are Priests Silent on Morality?
Peter Hendricks, Cape Town – Do you ever hear a priest give a sermon on moral living? God said: “If you love me, keep my Commandments”, but if a priest should ask his congregation...
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Humanae Vitae Was Prophetic
Luky Whittle, Kroonstad – Fifty years after the publication of Humanae vitae, Fr Anthony Egan in his Pope Paul VI articles is making me feel as pained as I was in 1968 by quoting...
Pope: Jesus Crucified is Our Salvation
True followers of Jesus profess their faith not through pre-packaged platitudes but rather through concrete actions of love for their neighbours, Pope Francis said. When he asked the disciples who they think he is,...
What the Bible is and What it Isn’t
By Cackie Upchurch – Recently I heard a radio interview with a professor who had once been an Evangelical, then what he called a “liberal Protestant” and finally now is an agnostic. He...
Pope in Palermo! Video
Pope prays for young people, their diligence and courage As he often does with a group made up of people of different faiths or no faith, Pope Francis gave young people in Palermo a...
Teen Organist, Dale de Windt, Plays for God
A teenager from the Cape Flats serves as resident organist of a great cathedral and has dreams of taking his talent into the world. ERIN CARELSE spoke to Dale de Windt. Few cathedrals in the...
Pilgrimage to Ireland in Pictures
In August, a group of Southern Cross pilgrims, led by Bishop Victor Phalana of Klerksdorp, travelled to Ireland, with the itinerary framed around the anniversary of the apparition of Our Lady at Knock in the west of the country, and the papal Mass to close the World Meeting of Families in Dublin’s Phoenix Park.
I Have No Answers but Many Questions
The widely reported instances of sexual abuse and sexual misconduct of the clergy — two separate concepts civilly but equally against the canonical requirement of clerical obligatory celibacy in the Latin-rite priesthood — call...
Married after 25 Years of Friendship!
After a friendship lasting a quarter of a century, a Durban couple finally married. Janet and Gerald Breda, both widowed, married at Our Lady Star of the Sea church in Amanzimtoti, 25 years after...
Let’s Hear it For Music!
I like to think that there is a song for every moment in our lives. In times of joy, rings and claps that sound together; in times of sadness, heavy drums and bass guitars...
Grandparents: “Our goal is to get our children and grandchildren to heaven.”
Now more than ever, grandparents have an essential role in their families, particularly when it comes to passing on the faith to future generations. “We had to realize that while society doesn’t value grandparents,...
A Revolution of Tenderness – This Will Save Us
Today, more than ever, the world needs a revolution of tenderness, Pope Francis said. “Far from being reduced to sentimentalism, tenderness is the first step in overcoming the withdrawal into oneself, to emerge from...
Meet Our Miracle Baby!
Luna Carelse became the first “Southern Cross baby” in more than a decade when she was born in late August to our journalist Erin Carelse and her husband Brent. In the past 25 years,...
