For Lent, Read the Gospel and Fast from Gossip
By Carol Glatz – People should fast from gossiping and spreading hearsay as part of their Lenten journey, Pope Francis said. “For Lent this year, I will...
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Let There Be Love!
In February, radio stations, shopping malls and advertisers reminded us that it’s the “Month of Love”. Of course, their interests are purely commercial: hoping we will be...
Pray with the Pope: March 2021
General Intention: Let us pray that we may experience the sacrament of reconciliation with renewed depth, to taste the infinite mercy of God. Taste God’s infinite mercy...
Missionvale Care Centre thanks you for Lenten Appeal Contributions
Courtesy of the SACBC – Missionvale Care Centre is one of the beneficiaries of the generous givers of Lenten contributions and they are grateful for the help...
Head of German Catholic bishops: I do not deny Communion to a Protestant who asks for it
The president of the German Catholic bishops’ conference said on Thursday that he would continue to give Holy Communion to Protestants who ask for it. Bishop Georg...
Cardinal’s Lenten Meditation: Conversion is a Call to Rekindle Faith
Conversion means believing that God became flesh to make all things new and offer his kingdom to everyone, said Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, offering the first meditation of...
History in Colour: Pope Benedict XVI Resigns
A snapshot from the past, colourised exclusively for The Southern Cross Today, 28 February, it’s seven years ago that Pope Benedict XVI ended his pontificate, just over...
How a Former Heroin Addict Unearthed a Book of Irish Martyrs
For Damien Richardson, it just seemed like another job. A man had asked him if he would clear out the house of his late sister in north...
Pope Francis Says Seeing A Psychiatrist Helped Him With Anxiety When He Was Younger
Pope Francis has said that seeing a psychiatrist in Argentina helped him with anxiety when he was a younger priest in an interview published in an Argentine...
Obedience in Faith to God: 2nd Sunday of Lent
Sermon by Emmanuel Suntheni OSB First Reading: Genesis 22:1–2, 9–13, 15–18 Psalm: Psalm 116:10, 15–19 Second Reading: Romans 8:31–34 Gospel: Mark 9:2–10 SERMON AND LISTENING TO...
Vatican Official Insists Religious Services are ‘Essential Services’
For believers, the ability to practice their faith and receive spiritual guidance are “the highest of essential services,” and pandemic practices over the past year have shown...
Heroes of Love: New Pathway Open for Future Saints
By Carol Glatz – Pope Francis has yet to sign decrees in sainthood causes that follow the new path he approved in 2017, that of giving one’s life...
