Mass Readings: 16 August – 23 August, 2020
Liturgical Calendar Year A – Weekday Cycle Year 2 Sunday August 16, 20th Sunday of the Year, Assumption of the...
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Cartoon of the Week: Shoe-String Fashion
The Southern Cross has been publishing cartoons on its back page drawn by Conrad Burke since the early 90s. We...
From Our Vaults 76 Years Ago: August 9, 1944
Pope Pius XII speaks to South Africa Pope Pius XII has made his first radio broadcast to South Africa—the first...
Mass Readings: 9 August – 16 August, 2020
Liturgical Calendar Year A – Weekday Cycle Year 2 Sunday August 9, 19th Sunday of the Year 1 Kings 19:9,...
Fr Bernhard Johannes Albers OMI, Rest in Peace
Oblate Father Bernhard Albers passed away in the early hours of July 15 at Lady Selbourne in Claremont, Pretoria, at...
Fr Eamon O’Reilly OMI, Rest in Peace
Oblate Father Eamon O’Reilly, formerly of Johannesburg, died on July 12, a day before his 88th birthday, in Ireland. Fr...
Cartoon of the Week: Mother or Baby-Sitter?
The Southern Cross has been publishing cartoons on its back page drawn by Conrad Burke since the early 90s. We...
Mass Readings: 2 August – 9 August, 2020
Liturgical Calendar Year A – Weekday Cycle Year 2 Sunday August 2, 18th Sunday of the Year Isaiah 55:1-3, Psalm...
Fr Peter Hillen, Rest in Peace
Pallottine Father Peter Hillen, who served in South Africa from 1999-2007, died on July 18 at the age of 68...
