Talking gibberish
It is puzzling that the lifting of an excommunication of an individual who intolerably denies the extent of the Holocaust...
Editorials
Service is holy
The parish is the usual place for Catholics to experience Christ present in his members. It is the local community...
Let’s stick to the truth
IN 1974, President Richard Nixon of the United States was forced to resign office because of the Watergate Scandal. In...
Church In Change
by Michael Shackleton – An often-quoted extract from Cardinal Newman’s Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine reads: To live...
Peace in the Holy Land
The latest round of carnage in the Middle East has served to underscore a crucial but often neglected truth: Israel’s...
Overthrowing Mugabe?
For those truly exasperated by Robert Mugabe’s ruinous misrule of Zimbabwe, the vision of military intervention to effect regime change...
Our prayers for 2009
As we leave behind the year 2008 and enter 2009, we reflect on a year of political and social trauma...
Liturgical anger
The sheep are not happy with their shepherds. In recent weeks, The Southern Cross has received a flood of letters,...
This is Christmas
Guest editorial by Bishop Stephen Brislin Awake, mankind, says St Augustine. For your sake God has become man. Awake, you...
