Artist-Priest, Fr Wilfried Joye OMI Dies
A well-known and prolific artist and Oblate of Mary Immaculate priest who has died at 79 was recalled as a...
January 2019
Parish Offers Care Programmes for the Divorced and Grieving
A parish in Johannesburg will host another round of Divorce Care and Grief Share programmes, each running for 13 weeks,...
Southern Cross Seller Sees in 2019 in Style!
Gregory “Gregs” Bennett of All Saints church in Ennerdale, Johannesburg archdiocese, dressed in New Year minstrel costume, sells the final issue of 2018 of...
Intern Christen Torres Honed her Craft, Survived Birds
Sunday’s Southern Cross was our last issue produced with intern Christen Torres in the newsroom. With her six- month internship...
Pope: Catholics Must Continue Seeking Pardon for Anti-Judaism
A few decades of respectful Catholic-Jewish dialogue pale in comparison to “19 centuries of Christian anti-Judaism,” Pope Francis said, so...
Women Can Be as Deadly as Men
Fr Finbarr Flanagan OFM, Pretoria – Sister Angelina Laub OP in her letter “Capitalism hurts women most” is, I think, a...
The Celibacy Debate
When he announced that the bishops of Germany are opening a discussion about the option of changing the discipline of...
Second Sunday of the Year Reflection
At Cana it is Mary the mother of Jesus who is the one known and trusted in the wedding venue....
Pope: It’s a ‘Grave Sin’ to Deny God has Blessed Other Christians
Just as divisions in society grow when wealth is not shared, divisions within Christianity grow when the richness of gifts God has given to one Christian church or community are not recognised and shared, Pope Francis said.
