The Southern Cross Over the Decades: 12 Issues for Subscribers
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Category: Centenary Year
Southern Cross Reader Sees Great-Grandfather’s Name in First Issue
Moira Hansen was paging through the first issue of our new magazine when a name caught her eye…Charles Rudden. The article “From our Vaults: 100 Years Ago”...
From Our Vaults 100 Years Ago: October 16, 1920
On the 100th anniversary of the first publication of The Southern Cross, on October 16, 1920, we look back at the very first edition. Pope blesses first...
Take Our Survey: Our New Southern Cross Magazine
Taking only a few minutes of your time, you can help us give you what you’d really like to see in Our New Southern Cross Magazine Begin...
From Our Vaults: 22 Years Ago: August 2, 1998
Catholic Church in KZN killing fields Following political assassinations in the Richmond area in KwaZulu-Natal’s Midlands that have claimed 30 lives, many rural people go to town...
Archbishop William Slattery: There’s a Death in the Family
It is a very sad moment in the history of the Catholic Church of South Africa to learn that our beloved weekly as we knew it will...
From Our Vaults: Special Eucharistic Prayer
Eucharistic Prayer written especially for The Southern Cross by Msg Friedrich Carl Kolbe dated 5 June 1929
From Our Vaults 91 Years Ago: June 5, 1929
Eucharistic Congress in Durban The Southern Cross describes the historic Eucharistic Congress in Durban as an “unprecedented pageant of the Royal Christ, a flaming evidence of Catholic...
The Southern Cross Needs To Reach All Catholics
Fr Willem Basson, Kamiesberg, Northern Cape – I understand the difficult situation in which The Southern Cross and its staff find themselves at this Covid-19 moment. It...
From Our Vaults 68 Years Ago: May 7, 1952
SA gets new patron at Durban congress The Church in South Africa celebrated its dedication to a new patron, Our Lady of the Assumption, with a special...
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...
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...
