Calling all Catholics!
Calling all Catholics! Over the next couple of weeks we’ll be asking you all sorts of questions about Church, your parish and your faith life. Let’s get Catholics talking! We love to hear from...
Category: Centenary Year
From Our Vaults 28 Years Ago: March 8, 1992
Bishops call for ‘Yes’ vote White South Africans have the chance to apologise for apartheid by voting a resounding “Yes” in President FW de Klerk’s referendum on March 17, said the Southern African Catholic...
From Our Vaults 19 Years Ago: March 4, 2001
Archbishop Napier becomes a cardinal Presiding over the largest consistory in history, Pope John Paul II created 44 new cardinals. They included Cardinal Wilfrid Napier, archbishop of Durban, who was the 24th of the...
From Our Vaults 30 Years Ago: February 25, 1990
SA bishops on Mandela’s release Welcoming the release from prison after 27 years of Nelson Mandela, the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference says that “his release hopefully signals the end to a particularly sad...
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...
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...
