Remembering our Dead
November has been a month of remembrance. For Catholics, the “remembering” is tied to the feast of All Souls and a whole month of praying for those...
November 2014
Mass Readings – November 30 – December 7, 2014
Liturgical Calendar Year B – Weekdays Cycle 1 Sunday, November 30, First Sunday of Advent Isaiah 63:16-17, 64:1, 3-8 (63 16-17, 19 64 2-7) Psalms 80:2-3, 15-16,...
Pope Francis: The world will end with peace
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service Believing in eternity and in the final establishment of the kingdom of God, Christians throughout history – starting with the disciples –...
We all need to be listened to
From C Roberts, Cape Town We all need to play our part in reaching out and evangelising. But how is this done? It starts at Mass. We are...
The woman priest debate
The recent ordination in South Africa of a woman, Dr Mary Ryan, to the Catholic priesthood – an illicit and invalid act in Church law – has...
The Pervasive Catholic spirit of Paris
In October a group of Southern Cross pilgrims, led by Bishop Joao Rodrigues of Tzaneen, returned from a pilgrimage to Portugal,Spain and France. In the final of...
A Catholic-Anglican bond
A special ecumenical vocation was born when a French priest met an Anglican aristocrat on a Portuguese island.
Keep your words sweet
While working on training material for a communications course recently, I was reminded of something one of our teachers told us way back in Grade 9 (or...
What sort of king is Our Lord?
BY FR RALPH DE HAHN Pope Pius XI instituted the feast of Christ the King, this year on November 23, in 1925. Yet today our people of...
