Getting Close To Lourdes’ St Bernadette
In October a group of Southern Cross pilgrims travelled through Catholic France, and visited Lourdes, where St Bernadette saw Our...
November 2019
Justice & Peace Warns Govt to Get Waterwise
The head of the bishops’ Justice & Peace Commission has called for a ten-year moratorium on mining in 22 strategic...
The German Association of Catholic Communicators Visit Cape Town!
Posing with a sculpture of Nelson Mandela on the balcony of Cape Town’s City Hall were members of a group...
Br Martin Thompson OFM Rest in Peace
By Paddy Noonan OFM – Franciscan Brother Martin Thompson died on September 29 in Ireland. He was born as George...
To Be Waterwise
In the face of climate change we will have to get used to increasingly frequent droughts in South Africa,...
Augustinian Sister Mary Carmel Collins Rest in Peace
By Shirley Juan – Sister Mary Carmel Collins of Estcourt, KwaZulu-Natal, died on September 18 at the age of 88....
The Church Opposed Abortion From Early Days
This month marks the 23rd anniversary of parliament voting to legalise abortion. Paul De Marco reflects on why the killing of the unborn...
Parishioners of St Patrick’s, La Rochelle Dress the Part!
Children from St Patrick’s church in La Rochelle, Johannesburg, celebrated their diverse cultures together with parish priest Fr Jorge Guerra....
Cartoon of the Week: A Lifetime of Lessons
The Southern Cross has been publishing cartoons on its back page drawn by Conrad Burke since the early 90s. We...
