History Shapes Today
Dear Reader, In every edition of The Southern Cross, we look back at various times in the past, in regular items such as the Saint of the...
Editorials 2024
The Mission of Our Church
Dear Reader, The Church’s primary function is to evangelise — to lead people to God and salvation. This is the missionary imperative that comes into a special...
Guardian of Democracy
Dear Reader, This year South Africa marked 30 years of democracy — three decades in which some things went well but many things also went wrong, many...
The Witness of Women
Dear Reader, August is Women’s Month in South Africa, and in this issue we mark it in special ways. Our cover star is Sr Dominica Mkhize FSF,...
The Shrine for all of South Africa
Dear Reader, – South Africa has a new shrine! The Mother of Mercy shrine in Magaliesburg, poetically located near the Cradle of Humankind, may be a project...
Exercise for Our Faith
Dear Reader, Any Catholic, whether the parishioner who sits at the end of the fifth pew in church or a distinguished bishop presiding at the altar, needs...
The Past and the Future
Dear Reader, Smiling from our cover this month is a young man of prodigious talent and a seriousness about his vocation in music that belies his age....
Vocations and Blessings
Dear Reader, A popular item for sale in souvenir shops around the Vatican is a calendar of portraits of handsome young priests with charming smiles in their...
Schooling and Faith
Dear Reader, Welcome to this thicker-than-usual issue of The Southern Cross, in which several Catholic schools showcase their impressive successes in the latest round of matric results....
Unexpected Miracles
Dear Reader, Our cover story this month is on Lourdes, the site of Our Lady’s reported apparitions in 1858 to the peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous. Apart from...
