Who Was John Bradburne?
The sainthood cause for poet and Franciscan missionary John Bradburne will be launched in September in Zimbabwe after being approved by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome. The poet and secular...
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Dying Man: I Want to Come to the Light
A man dying of Aids approached missionaries during an event in Witbank and said: “I want to be clean and come to the light. Please call the priest to come and sit next to...
2019 World Union of Catholic Women’s Organisations Mass
Catholic Women’s League members in Johannesburg archdiocese came in their numbers to attend the annual World Union of Catholic Women’s Organisations Mass at St Francis of Assisi parish in Reiger Park. (Seated from left)...
Make the Southern Cross a Vital Read for Catholics
Tom Kent, Cape Town -Your editorial “A question of survival’’ makes me “despair” because there is very little I can do about your predicament. It would indeed be very sad if The Southern Cross...
Holy Land & Oberammergau with The Southern Cross August 2020
Led by Archbishop William Slattery OFM 21 August to 2 September 2020 Visit the places of Our Lord’s Passion, then see the famous Passion Play in Oberammergau. Performed only ever 10 YEARS! Friday, August...
Papal Mass in Catholic Mauritius, with Fr Russell Pollitt SJ – Sept 2019
Led by Fr Russell Pollitt SJ, with Papal Mass • 6 – 13 September 2019 Join Radio Veritas, The Southern Cross and Spotlight.Africa on this special trip to Mauritius to attend Pope Francis’ PAPAL MASS in the capital Port-Louis...
This Week’s Issue: 10 April – 16 April, 2019
» What Pope’s document on youth says » Time to bebunk myths of suicide » Think like a Christian when you vote » Is Holy Grail of the Last Supper in Spain? » With...
Why the Church Must Engage with Politics
The separation of state and Church does not mean that the Church cannot speak on matters relating to politics, as Fr Valentine Iheanacho MSP explains in his article. As South Africa prepares for the...
This Week’s Issue: 13 March – 19 March, 2019
» St Patrick: Six years a slave » Pilgrims spread word about World Youth Day » In the footsteps of St Oscar Romero » What the Church has to say about sports » Keep...
Don’t Dread Lent, but Make the Best of its 40 days
Long, orange flames consumed the palms Massgoers had brought in to Washington’s Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land to burn ceremonially before the noontime crowd that gathered for their last Sunday Mass before Lent....
Abortion Clinic Head Turns Pro-Life
Stephen A Clark, Manila, Philippines – An upcoming movie, Unplanned, due for release in the US in March, is an important account of repentance. It’s the true story of Abby Johnson, a former director of...
Raising Our Boy with Autism
Janine Scott dos Santos’ son has autism, a condition still not understood well by society. Here she shares her journey. ‘These days, everybody has a label. When we were kids, there was no autism,...
