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....
Church / Editorials 2024 / School News / Simmermacher
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published February 23, 2024
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....
Ash Wednesday / Church / Editorials 2024 / Lent / Our Lady
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published January 29, 2024 · Last modified April 3, 2024
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...
Dear Reader, Our cover this month features a young priest who made the unusual transition from Lutheran ministry to Catholic holy orders. In our article on page...
Dear Reader, When we are young, a year takes so long that when the Advent wreaths go up again, we barely remember last Christmas. For me, and...
Church / Church Teaching / Editorials 2023 / Simmermacher
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published October 23, 2023
Dear Reader, During the month of November, we Catholics remember our dead. Our feature article in this issue on how we relate to our departed loved ones...
A video clip is currently circulating which accuses Cardinal Stephen Brislin of racism for not embracing and kissing an African cardinal in the way he greets two...
Church / Editorials 2023 / Mission / Saints / Simmermacher
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published September 22, 2023
Dear Reader, October is Mission Month, so it is right that in this issue there is a running thread of evangelisation. The proclamation of the Good News,...
Dear Reader, When he was a young deacon sent to Lesotho, Cardinal-elect Stephen Brislin received the Sesotho nickname Motlalepula, which means “he comes with rain”. When he...
Church / Church History / Editorials 2023 / Women and the Church / Youth
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published August 4, 2023
Our striking cover photo and the accompanying story show once again, as we have so often in the past, that the Catholic faith is alive in young...
About us / Church / Editorials 2023 / Simmermacher
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published June 21, 2023 · Last modified March 13, 2024
Dear Reader, Our cover this month gives us an unusual view of St John Vianney National Seminary in Waterkloof, Pretoria. It is an aerial shot taken by...
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