A Southern Cross Christmas, 60 years ago
The Christmas edition of The Southern Cross in 1958 was a bumper 32-page affair. GÜNTHER SIMMERMACHER steps into a time-capsule...
December 2020
Poverty not Presents: That’s the Heart of Christmas
By Junno Arocho Esteves – Current restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic can help people put Christ, and not the...
First Motswana Sister to earn a PhD
History was made on December 14 when Sr Macdelyn Mosalagae SC walked in ceremonial graduation to the podium of the...
The SA Bishops in 1976
The January edition of The Southern Cross features an article on the 70th anniversary of Pope Pius XII establishing the...
Fratelli Tutti inspected: What Women Say
It’s been almost two months since Pope Francis published his encyclical Fratelli Tutti on the feast of the little poor...
St Stephen and the “Holy Vaccine”
A poster of St Stephen holding a “Holy Vaccine”, by the Rome street artist known as Maupal, is seen near...
Fr Ralph de Hahn: Seeking the Child
A reflection by Fr Ralph de Hahn All philosophy finds its limitations; all theology is confounded, all history is startled...
Seven nuns die of Covid-19
The second wave of Covid-19 has claimed the lives of seven Sisters of the congregation of the Daughters of St...
Papal Foundation’s Covid-19 Grants Set for South Africa
The Papal Foundation has announced it will give $1,8 million in grants to support COVID-19 relief efforts in developing nations...
