Countdown Of The Southern Cross’ 40 Marian Shrines – #40 – #36
The Southern Cross’ Top 40 Marian Shrines, compiled and written by editor Günther Simmermacher, features mainly sites that have their...
March 2019
Priest: Clericalism Leaves No Space for True Relationship
Fr Dennis Ongansie CO, Oudtshoorn – Clericalism is a big stumbling block to effective pastoral ministry because it imposes an artificial...
Pope Accepts Resignation of Embattled Chilean Cardinal
By Junno Arocho Esteves – Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a Chilean cardinal who has faced widespread criticism for...
Laid-off Church NGO Staff Achieve Doubled Buckets of Love
The last project which Catholic Welfare & Development (CWD), the former social development agency of the archdiocese of Cape Town,...
Rector of Montreal Oratory Stabbed During Televised Mass
By Francois Gloutnay – Father Claude Grou, rector of St. Joseph’s Oratory of Mount Royal, was stabbed during a Mass March...
THAT is the Church
Those people who regard the Catholic Church as a body in ruins after all the scandals and betrayals don’t know...
3rd Sunday in Lent Reflection
We live in a world of restless anxiety where much of our relationships are based on the commercialisation of love,...
‘Training of priests to see faithful as without rights part of roots of abuse’
Part of the abuse crisis in the Church resides in clericalism, as Pope Francis has said, but another cause can...
Pope Francis Sends Aid to Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi after Cyclone
By Catholic News Service – As an immediate sign of his concern and encouragement to other donors, Pope Francis has...
