June 2012 – The Southern Cross

Mass readings July 1 – July 8

By admin / June 30, 2012

Year B, Weekdays Year 2 Sunday, July 1, 13th Sunday of the Year Wisdom 1: 13-15, 2: 23-24, Psalms 30: […]

By admin / June 30, 2012

HOLY BONES, HOLY DUST: How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe, by Charles Freeman. Yale University Press. 2011. 270

By admin / June 29, 2012

BY MARNIE McALLISTER LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (CNS)�A team of researchers has been studying the skeletal remains of martyrs kept in reliquaries

From John Lee, Johannesburg Many thanks for the excellent editorial of June 6, �Are Catholic Schools still Catholic?�. Many Catholics

By Editor / June 27, 2012

The defining theme for the Church in 2012 and the year after will be the New Evangelisation, a project initiated

By admin / June 26, 2012

BY HELEN?NTABENI As last month�s controversy over the painting �The Spear� showed, art can sharply divide opinions. HELEN?NTABENI reflects on

By admin / June 25, 2012

BY ANTHONY GATHIMBIRI The moral breakdown in schools is one of the thorny issues in our society today. Speaking with

One of the distinguishing features of the early Christians which I discussed last month was the fact that they loved

From Finbarr Flanagan OFM, Pretoria Father Bonaventure Hinwood (May 30) asks for suggestions for ending poverty and hunger, but only