Cartoon of the Week: Don’t Scrimp on Catechism
The Southern Cross has been publishing cartoons on its back page drawn by Conrad Burke since the early 90s. We...
May 2020
Pope: Prayer Is Powerful And Life-Giving
By Cindy Wooden – Prayer is powerful not because it changes God or God’s plans, but because it changes individuals and...
Lessons For Humanity From An Inspiring Pope On His 100th Birthday
Celebrating the Eucharist at St. Pope John Paul II’s tomb in St. Peter’s Basilica on the 100th anniversary of the...
Fr Gerry O’Reilly: Lockdown in Grahamstown
By Fr Gerry O’Reilly OFM – Lockdown is a new experience for all of us. Three weeks before it officially...
Bioethics Centre: U.K. Elderly Death Rate Greatest Failure Of Pandemic
By Simon Caldwell – The “extremely high death rate” in U.K. care homes for the elderly will go down as the...
Vatican Distributes Notes On Cleaning, Protecting Church Objects
By Junno Arocho Esteves – To help prevent damaging artistic and historically significant objects, the Pontifical Council for Culture released suggestions...
From Our Vaults 95 Years Ago: May 27, 1925
The first SA-born bishop The first locally-born bishop for South Africa has been appointed by Pope Pius XI as the...
After Zoom Meeting, SA Churches May Now Open
BY ERIN CARELSE & STAFF REPORTERS The archbishop of Cape Town and other faith leaders met with President Cyril Ramaphosa in a...
What Next for Church in Pandemic?
The Church must have taken note of the experts’ current position on the coronavirus pandemic, as encapsulated by Prof Shabir...
