You’ve heard the saying: “Nero was fiddling while Rome was burning.” Could we say that about our activities in South

Traditionally this 4th Sunday of Easter, also known as Good Shepherd Sunday, has been regarded as Vocations Sunday. Again traditionally,

Botswana seems to consider itself rather an orphan child in the region of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference, and

Receiving a query from a family I met last year in Mexico about accommodation for the World Cup in June

As I am writing this column we have just celebrated the feast of the Baptism of Jesus. What happened right

One can measure physical growth relatively easily with a measuring tape and scale but intellectual — apart from school reports

Readers of The Southern Cross possibly more than most Catholics know what these days are. Over time one wonders are

For the last few months, we had a foster child. It started off by him just coming over for a

It seems that an invitation to marriage nowadays could be about as casual as an invitation to tennis — and