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...
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...
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published December 24, 2020 · Last modified December 20, 2020
The Big Southern Cross Christmas Quiz – 50 questions to test your Christmas knowledge! Compiled by GüntherSimmermacher
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 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,...
by Admin · Published December 23, 2020 · Last modified December 13, 2020
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...
Advent / Christmas / Church / Education / Religious Music
by CNS · Published December 22, 2020 · Last modified December 21, 2020
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Christmas / Jesus / Reflections
by admin · Published December 21, 2020 · Last modified December 13, 2020
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...
Christmas / Fr Ralph de Hahn / Reflections
by Fr Ralph de Hahn · Published December 20, 2020 · Last modified December 13, 2020
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...
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,”...
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