Exploiting women or treating them like objects is a sin against God, Pope Francis said in his homily during morning Mass at Domus Sanctae Marthae. It will do people good – especially those who enjoy freedom – to reflect on how many women have become “slaves of this throwaway mentality,” he said.
The older I get, the more it amazes me just how much love there is about, and considering that it’s Our Lord’s greatest gift to us, I am equally amazed at how little organised religion concentrates on this fact.
The bicentenary celebrations at the Bellville Velodrome on June 24 at 2:00pm are the culmination of a year-long jubilee to...
Pope Francis denounced the practice of administering prenatal tests to determine birth defects that often lead to abortions, comparing it to the Nazi-era eugenics program that determined what lives were worth keeping or eliminating.
From Pope Gregory XIII’s observational tower built in the Vatican Gardens in the 16th century so celestial studies could aid the reform of the calendar to Pope Leo XIII, who officially re-founded the Vatican Observatory in the late 19th century, popes have kept their eyes fixed on the heavens.
Liturgical Calendar Year B Weekday Cycle 2 Sunday, June 24, Birth of St John the Baptist Isaiah 49:1-6, Psalm 139:1-3,...
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Winston and Muriel Maritz of Cape Town are preparing to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. They married on June 22,...
The Southern Cross has been publishing cartoons on its back page drawn by Conrad Burke since the early 90s. We...
