The First Editor of The Southern Cross
101 years ago, The Southern Cross published its first issue. Dr Sandren Naidoo looks at the life of the founding editor, Fr James Kelly. When he parted...
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by Admin · Published December 1, 2021 · Last modified November 30, 2021
101 years ago, The Southern Cross published its first issue. Dr Sandren Naidoo looks at the life of the founding editor, Fr James Kelly. When he parted...
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by Admin · Published August 8, 2021 · Last modified August 5, 2021
See larger images of some of the stories in this issue Cardinal Montini in SA Visiting South Africa, Cardinal Giovanni Montini [the future Pope Paul VI] laid...
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by Admin · Published June 30, 2021 · Last modified June 23, 2021
Death of Pope John XXIII Pope John XXIII died on June 3 “like a saint”, according to Cardinal Augustin Bea, who visited the Holy Father on his...
Mary Elizabeth Lack, MBE: 16 May 1929 – 31 May 2021 Obituary by Rosanne Shields On the morning of May 31, the Church of Cape Town lost...
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by Admin · Published April 29, 2021 · Last modified April 26, 2021
Communion may be in hand The Vatican has approved a request from the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference to permit reception of Holy Communion in the hand....
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by Gunther Simmermacher · Published March 2, 2021
In February 2001, Günther Simmermacher became the editor of The Southern Cross. Here he reflects on the past 20 years, the present and the future. Sometimes you...
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,...
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by Editor · Published September 24, 2020 · Last modified January 18, 2024
This is the last of more than 5 200 editorials that have appeared in The Southern Cross since the first edition was published on October 16, 1920....
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by Admin · Published September 1, 2020 · Last modified August 29, 2020
Southern Cross editor resigns Fr Owen McCann has resigned as editor of The Southern Cross after leading the newspaper for seven years. He will now take over...
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by Tamar SC · Published August 28, 2020 · Last modified August 26, 2020
Celebrate Mary’s 2000th birthday At an open-air Assumption feast Mass in Lourdes attended by 180000 people, Pope John Paul II called on Catholics to celebrate Mary’s 2000th birthday...
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