What lies behind Nigeria’s bomb?
IT is highly disturbing that as a family you can go to attend, say, a midnight Christmas Mass only to...
January 2012
Lessons from the Holocaust
BY SIPIWE MBILI ‘Not to act is to act, not to speak is to speak,” wrote Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Protestant...
Blame dull catechism classes
From Name withheld, Durban In the cover article “Priest calls SA youth to action” (December 7), Fr Sammy Mabusela is...
The Mystery of the Church
Like any other newspaper, The Southern Cross gives its readers information and comment about what’s going on in today’s world....
Believing with science
Last month we made a brief detour to reflect on the meaning of Christmas. Now we continue to trace some...
Michael Coleman: Tribute to a Bishop and an old Friend
BY SYDNEY DUVAL I remember St John Vianney Seminary, which I attended for some time half a century ago, for...
A little pomp and colour goes along way
From JB Henrick, Pretoria Doctor John Straughan’s letter “Bishops, let’s stop the pomp” (November 23) refers. In a long life...
Family is the foundation of life
A husband and wife, beaming grandparents and two-point-four children — it might be the stereotypical television family, but it’s not...
Unity inside the Church
The We Are All Church movement in South Africa (or WAACSA) has decided to modify its name and adopt its...
