Centenary Year / From Our Vaults / History of The Southern Cross
by Tamar SC · Published March 4, 2020 · Last modified March 2, 2020
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...
About us / Centenary Year / From Our Vaults / History of The Southern Cross
by Tamar SC · Published February 18, 2020 · Last modified February 14, 2020
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...
About us / From Our Vaults / History of The Southern Cross
by Tamar SC · Published February 17, 2020 · Last modified February 14, 2020
Cardinal detained in communist jailed Poland’s Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski is reportedly being held in the notorious Lubianka prison in Warsaw where detainees are usually “softened up” by torture before “confessions” are extracted from them,...
Centenary Year / From Our Vaults / History of The Southern Cross
by Tamar SC · Published January 5, 2020
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...
About us / Centenary Year / From Our Vaults / History of The Southern Cross
by Tamar SC · Published December 5, 2019 · Last modified December 1, 2019
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...
About us / From Our Vaults / History of The Southern Cross
by Tamar SC · Published November 27, 2019 · Last modified November 25, 2019
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....
About us / Centenary Year / From Our Vaults / History of The Southern Cross
by Tamar SC · Published November 8, 2019 · Last modified November 6, 2019
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...
About us / From Our Vaults / History of The Southern Cross
by Tamar SC · Published October 24, 2019 · Last modified October 21, 2019
Every week for the duration of our 100th year, we will dig an old issue of The Southern Cross out of our vaults, and highlight a few stories from that edition, as well as...
The Southern Cross is turning 99 years old — which means, as the arithmetically-gifted reader will have correctly deduced — that in exactly a year’s time, The Southern Cross will celebrate its centenary. In...
About us / Death / History of The Southern Cross
by hazelelponiSC · Published May 19, 2019 · Last modified May 17, 2019
Former Southern Cross board member Joan Williamson died on March 27 at 98. Born in 1920 in Pietermaritzburg, she was a boarder at Holy Cross Convent School in Aliwal North. After matriculating she studied...
Later this year, The Southern Cross will enter its 100th year of publication, culminating in its centenary in October 2020. That jubilee will be a good time to reflect on a long history of...
Christmas / History of The Southern Cross
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published December 26, 2018 · Last modified December 18, 2018
The Christmas edition of The Southern Cross in 1958 was a bumper 32-page affair. GÜNTHER SIMMERMACHER steps into a time-capsule from 60 years ago. In the 1950s, the Catholic Church in South Africa, as...
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