It’s not inside, it’s on top
You may remember the famous ad for a brand of coffee creamer: “It’s not inside, it’s on top!” Reflecting on...
2005
A time to heal
As the cardinals prepared to enter conclave on April 18 to elect a new pope, newspapers in Europe already had...
Spilled milk. Let’s move forward
People have praised or criticised Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, for his theological or moral positions. Conservatives have...
Standing up for the Church
The joy Catholics will have felt at the worldwide plethora of goodwill towards the Catholic Church following the death of...
Death of a pope has raised our shares
It is ironic and somewhat sad that it has taken the death of a pope for Catholics to discover how...
A man for all seasons
It is a mark of the pervasive nature of Pope John Paul II’s pontificate that the nature of his successor...
A disposable life
The death by starvation of Terri Schiavo in a Florida hospital on March 31 is an indictment of a society...
News from home made me think
It is always good to hear news from home, especially from the many readers of The Southern Cross. The departments...
Da Vinci Code: A liberty with facts?
The book The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown has become a cultural phenomenon that may yet come to help...
