Mass Readings April 20-27, 2014
Liturgical Calendar Year A Weekdays Cycle Year 2 Sunday, April 20, Easter Sunday Acts 10:34, 37-43, Psalm 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23,...
April 2014
John Paul II: A brief biography
Blessed John Paul II, who will be canonised on April 27, was one of the most forceful moral leaders of...
Movie Review – Son of God
Son of God Reviewed by John Mulderig As the first wide-release film in nearly 50 years to focus on the...
The Easter Triduum Mass Readings, 2014
The Easter Triduum Thursday, April 17, Holy Thursday Evening – Mass of the Lord’s Supper Exodus 12:1-8, 11-14, Psalm 116:12-13,...
Pray for peace in one-state Palestine
From Ken Hanna, Johannesburg I read with great interest of Pope Francis’ pending visit to Bethlehem in occupied Palestine, as...
The roots of a pope: John XXIII’s hometown
By Carol Glatz , Catholic News Service Blessed John XXIII struggled to shake off many formalities that came with the papacy...
A Good Friday prayer for our suffering world
By prayerfully meditating before a crucifix, one can see and begin to understand, the ultimate result of sin.
1958 – “We have a new Pope!”
On October 29, 1958 The Southern Cross announces that Cardinal Angelo Roncalli has been named Pope John XXIII on its cover 29...
Pope: Imitate Jesus’ humility, thank him for it during Holy Week
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Jesus’ resurrection “isn’t the happy ending of a beautiful fairytale,...
