Scorched earth Catholics
Earlier this month The Southern Cross took the difficult decision to suspend the comments facility on its website. The comments...
January 2013
Why did we need the new Mass translations?
Why was it necessary for the English version of the Mass to be given to us in a new translation?...
This year is the time to raise your game
“You must give up your old way of life; you must put aside your old self, which get corrupted by...
Keeping those New Year resolutions
This is the first of a monthly column in which I intend to explore no more and no less some...
Mass readings January 20 – January 27, 2013
Liturgical Calendar Year C Weekdays Cycle Year 1 Sunday, January 20, 2nd Sunday Isaiah 62:1-5, Psalm 96:1-3, 7-10, 1 Corinthians...
Movie Reviews – Les Misérables/Django Unchained/Gangster Squad/Playing for Keeps
New releases on the South African circuit on January 18, 2013. Les Misérables By Joseph McAleer, Catholic News Service If your...
Hurley bio now in an abridged version
DENIS HURLEY: TRUTH TO POWER, by Paddy Kearney. UKZN Press. 2012. 272pp. ISBN: 978-1869142193 Reviewed by John O’Leary
Everyone, even atheists, has human desire to know who God is
By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The desire to see and know God is innate in everyone, even non-believers,...
Retaining young Catholics
From Frank Bompas, Johannesburg In your edition of December 26, the editor commented that the Church throughout the world is...
