From Our Vaults 98 Years Ago: February 18, 1922
New pope became cardinal last year The election of Cardinal Achilles Ratti of Milan to succeed Pope Benedict XV will not be a surprise to Vatican observers. The new pope was born in...
Category: Centenary Year
From Our Vaults 68 Years Ago: January 31, 1951
New hierarchy for SA The newly-established hierarchy of South Africa will have four metropolitan archdioceses, which will be headed by Archbishops Denis Hurley OMI (Durban), Owen McCann (Cape Town), John Garner (Pretoria) and Herman...
From Our Vaults 3 Years Ago: January 25, 2017
Second feast of Bl Benedict Daswa The celebrations of the second feast day of Bl Daswa, on February 1, will be held at Tshitanini village, where the beatification took place in 2015, and where...
Stop The Southern Cross Rumour Mill!
This month, staff members of The Southern Cross and our office were confronted with rumours that we would close down in March or October. Nothing could be further from the truth. Far from closing...
From Our Vaults 84 Years Ago: January 15, 1936
Death of SA’s great Churchman The great Churchman Mgr Frederick Kolbe has died in Cape Town, aged 82. Known to generations of Catholic children as “Uncle Joe”, Mgr Kolbe retained his faculties until the...
From Our Vaults 9 Years Ago: January 5, 2011
Every week for the duration of our 100th year, we dig an old issue of The Southern Cross out of our vaults, and highlight a few stories from that edition, as well as reproducing its...
From Our Vaults December 26, 1999
Every week for the duration of our 100th year, we dig an old issue of The Southern Cross out of our vaults, and highlight a few stories from that edition, as well as reproducing...
From Our Vaults 54 Years Ago: December 22, 1965
The Southern Cross banned! The Rhodesian government has banned The Southern Cross issue of December 8, 1965, which included an article headed “Blank space on page: Rhodesian government censors editorial in Catholic paper”. That...
From Our Vaults 80 Years Ago: December 13, 1939
Every week for the duration of our 100th year, we dig out an old issue of The Southern Cross from our vaults, and highlight a few stories from that edition, as well as reproducing...
From Our Vaults 96 Years Ago: December 5, 1923
Every week for the duration of our 100th year, we dig an old issue of The Southern Cross out of our vaults. Italian friar “Padre Pio” makes news Considerable interest has centred lately on...
From Our Vaults 30 Years Ago: November 19, 1989
Every week for the duration of our 100th year, we dig an old issue of The Southern Cross out of our vaults, and highlight a few stories from that edition, as well as reproducing its front-page....
From Our Vaults 13 Years Ago: 8 November, 2006
Every week for the duration of our 100th year, we dig an old issue of The Southern Cross out of our vaults, and highlight a few stories from that edition, as well as reproducing...
