God’s Wake-Up Call To What’s Most Important!
Although it is ordinary time in the church year, I think it often feels like Good Friday these days. Don’t...
July 2020
Attacks On Statues Seen As ‘Signs Of Society In Need Of Healing’
By Julie Asher – A wave of recent attacks on Catholic statues around the country and fires at two churches prompted...
Vatican: Laity Have Role, But Most Parishes Must Be Led By Priests
By Junno Arocho Esteves – The Vatican’s Congregation for Clergy issued a new instruction on pastoral care that specifies the...
Times Of Trauma: The Old Testament Is A Go-To Guide For Coping
By Carol Glatz – When the difficulties and uncertainties of the coronavirus pandemic were at their height in Italy this past...
Sr Bernadette Mtimkulu CPS Rest in Peace
By Sr Mary Florence Sitwala CPS – Precious Blood Sister Mary Bernadette Mtimkulu died at the age of 101 on...
Saintly Caution: Church’s Reputation On The Line When Judging Sanctity
By Junno Arocho Esteves – In the Catholic Church, a person’s canonisation is almost always preceded by decades of meticulous investigation...
Vatican Foreign Minister: Religious Freedom Must Be Protected
By Simon Caldwell – The Catholic Church has failed to defend Christians effectively, partly because it historically accepted persecution as part...
17th Sunday Reflection
Each one of us will at some stage have to walk into the darkness, letting go of all that we...
Cartoon of the Week: Shine Your Light
The Southern Cross has been publishing cartoons on its back page drawn by Conrad Burke since the early 90s. We...
