January 2017 – Page 12 – The Southern Cross

Dr Claude Newbury and Abortion in SA

By Letters Editor / January 4, 2017

Damian McLeish, Johannesburg – The article “How abortion became legal in SA” (November 2) mentioned attempts by the Church and […]

By Letters Editor / January 4, 2017

John Lee, Johannesburg – Surrounded as we are by Christian fundamentalists and other anti-Catholics, we Catholics need to have at

[Updated 2026] Question: I was surprised recently when a friend, an agnostic, claimed that the bishop’s crozier is actually an

That we may be One Intention: That all Christians may be faithful to the Lord’s teaching by striving with prayer

By Editor / January 3, 2017

The year 2016 will be remembered by many as an annus horribilis, a year that brought little by way of

Pilgrimages to certain holy places seem to have a long history among Christians. What prompted people in the first place

Why do many believing Christians so often shrug and say things like: If there really is a heaven… Is faith

By asiel / January 1, 2017

World Day of Peace Message sent to heads of state around the world – “banish violence from our hearts” Calling

In his column headed “Who am I to judge?”, Fr Ron Rolheiser wrote that God and Jesus judge no one,