Christmas Miracle brings Light into our Lives
The birth of the Saviour is a miracle that brings us hope, as WINNIE GRAHAM explains. Christmas is a-coming, the goose is getting fat. Why not put...
Category: Christmas
The Big Southern Cross Christmas Quiz
The Big Southern Cross Christmas Quiz – 50 questions to test your Christmas knowledge! Compiled by GüntherSimmermacher
Italy’s lockdown forces changes to pope’s Christmas events
By Cindy Wooden – With Italy returning to a COVID-19 lockdown over the Christmas holidays, the Vatican has announced that most of Pope Francis’ usual appointments will be...
A Priest Put the Hook in Candy Canes
A sweet that has become symbolic of Christmas treats owes its mass-produced existence to a Catholic priest who once kicked Elvis Presley out of his church hall,...
Christmas Fun Facts You Didn’t Know
Father Christmas’s traditional red suit was first invented by Coca Cola and was seen in their advertisements in 1931. The name Santa Claus made its first...
No Singing Allowed? Catholic School’s Students Learn Sign Language
By Joyce Duriga – When music teacher Lynn Kingsbury at St. Damian School in the Chicago suburb of Oak Forest learned that her students wouldn’t be allowed to...
Fr Allan Moss: To be Mary’s Child
By Fr Allan Moss OMI – Advent brings to mind the pregnancy of Mary. We prepare for the coming of her child. We know the child is...
A Southern Cross Christmas, 60 years ago
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,...
Poverty not Presents: That’s the Heart of Christmas
By Junno Arocho Esteves – Current restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic can help people put Christ, and not the constant need to purchase gifts, at the...
When was Jesus born? An investigation
How can we know when Jesus was really born? Comparing the Jewish and Gregorian (Western) calendars, COLIN GILLOT uses logical speculation to find the likely time of the first...
Fr Ralph de Hahn: Seeking the Child
A reflection by Fr Ralph de Hahn All philosophy finds its limitations; all theology is confounded, all history is startled and given a new meaning when the...
Advent reflection: Make Oneself Small in Order to Raise up the Other
Reaching out to and helping the poor “is to imitate God; it is to make oneself small out of love in order to raise up the other,”...
