Missionary journey
EMPANDENI INTERLUDE 1899-1903, Journal of a Woman Missionary. Transcribed and edited by Sr Brigid Rose Tiernan. Cluster Publications, Pietermaritzburg. 2008....
October 2008
Play with words and win a grand
When a good friend of The Southern Cross offered to put up R1000 as a prize for a competition among...
Our mission today
ON World Mission Sunday, this year on October 19, Catholics are asked to reflect on and pray for the Church’s...
Reclaiming our nice cathedrals
The Anglican archbishop of Canterbury whom you reported on October 1-7 (“Anglican row over Lourdes”) is to be congratulated for...
Divinity in poetry
THROUGH THE UNKNOWN REMEMBERED GATE by Margaret Blackie. New Voices Publishing, Cape Town. 2008. 145pp. AGE IS A BEAUTIFUL PHASE...
Mgr Jan Jaworski R.I.P.
Monsignor Jan Jaworski was born on June 22, 1920 in Lodz, Poland. His father ran a mill on the family...
Praying for victory is foul
Something that delights me no end is to see Catholic sport-stars blessing themselves with the sign of the cross every...
Dawkins’ confusion
I advise those seeking reliable assessment of Richard Dawkins’ writings and the many questions they raise against relevance of faith...
Scott Hahn: A convert’s story
Scott Hahn was converted, as we saw in last month’s column, during the first Mass he had ever attended, in...
