The church must “remain female” and “have this attitude of a wife and mother” who nurtures her children, the pope said in his homily during a morning Mass commemorating the feast of Mary, Mother of the Church.
As the United States approaches its annual day to remember the more than 1 million American combatants who have died in the country’s many wars, it is most appropriate to ask ourselves, “What would be the wisest and most loving way to celebrate Memorial Day?”
June Boyer, Johannesburg – It is very worrying that The Southern Cross is facing a financial crisis. I have been...
A Cape Town parish is preparing for the grand finale of its Churches Got Talent contest. The grand finale, with 16 finalists, will be held on June 3 at the Portuguese Association in Rugby.
Nicholas Barends was formally commissioned as the national director for Apostleship of the Sea (AoS) by Cape Town’s port...
Church / Mary / Pilgrimage
In the final of his three articles on sites of the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Holy Land, Günther Simmermacher visits the places in Jerusalem where the Church was ‘born’, where Mary fell into eternal sleep, and from where she was assumed into heaven.
Swiss Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, cancelled his participation in an upcoming Mass...
In February, the Vatican statement said that more than three-quarters of the members of the German bishops’ conference had approved a pastoral handbook titled “Walking with Christ: In the Footsteps of Unity: Mixed Marriages and Common Participation in the Eucharist”.
Happy Birthday to all of us. Pentecost is often called the birthday of the Catholic Church and so that means we can all indulge in a piece of cake — and it has got to a pretty large cake to accommodate 1985 candles!
