Easter – Page 20 – The Southern Cross

South Africa’s Time for Resurrection

For many Catholics, this year’s Holy Week is an experience of “virtual church”—those truly observing the lockdown, or people like […]

This is a very unusual Easter. We are in a national lockdown. Our freedom of movement has been completely curtailed

By CNS / April 13, 2020

By Cindy Wooden – In an Easter celebration like no other, Pope Francis prayed that Christ, “who has already defeated death

By Admin / April 12, 2020

Guest editorial by Sheila Pires – ‘I have seen the Lord,” announced Mary Magdalene to the disciples. The last weeks

I think it is relevant to repeat how Christ has been marginalised, how he has been constrained, reduced to Lord

There is a bit of the Pharisee within each one of us; “don’t disturb me with your alternate reality, I

By CNS / April 10, 2020

By Cindy Wooden – Pope Francis asked people to keep a long tradition of Catholic piety by focusing on “the

By Admin / April 10, 2020

What is the Stabat Mater? The “Stabat Mater” (the “Mother was Standing”) is a 13th-century Catholic hymn about Mary’s pain at

By Admin / April 10, 2020

As Jesus died on the cross, the earth trembled and everything went dark. Paul de Marco inspects these phenomena. Thomas