Pray For Lay Vocations, Too
By Margaret Hicks, Nelson Mandela Bay – It saddens me that whenever we pray for vocations, we ask for vocations to the priestly and religious life only....
Christian Leadership / Church / lay ministry / Parish Life / Prayer
by Letters Editor · Published May 9, 2022
By Margaret Hicks, Nelson Mandela Bay – It saddens me that whenever we pray for vocations, we ask for vocations to the priestly and religious life only....
Abortion / Catholic Social Teaching / Christian Leadership / Magliano
by Tony Magliano · Published September 30, 2021
For Catholics who put their faith first, before anything else, there is one way – above all others – to view the life and death issues facing...
Catholic trivia / Christian Leadership / Church / Church History / Saints
by Admin · Published August 29, 2021
How well do you know your Church? Test your knowledge in every issue of the Southern Cross magazine – Which future pope visited South Africa in 1962?...
Bishops / Christian Leadership / Church
by Admin · Published April 24, 2021 · Last modified April 26, 2021
By: Sr Maria de Lurdes Lodi Rissini SACBC Migrants and Refugees Office – Co-ordinator The SACBC Liaison Bishop for Migrants and Refugees, Archbishop Buti Tlhagale OMI of...
Bishops / Charity / Christian Leadership / Church / Church History / Poverty & Social Justice
by Admin · Published September 15, 2020 · Last modified September 11, 2020
By Fr Mokesh Morar – Last month saw the passing of a truly remarkable Church leader who stood up against the systematic violence of the state and...
Bishops / Christian Leadership / Church / Erin Carelse
by Erin Carelse · Published July 4, 2020 · Last modified July 3, 2020
In what may be a world-first, two women will be running the secretariat of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC), as of July 1. This comes...
Christian Leadership / Christian Living / Church / Church Teaching
by Admin · Published June 30, 2020 · Last modified June 28, 2020
By Dennis Jackson – Consider these statements: “People don’t come to Church only because what you do is good; they will also come because it must be...
Bishops / Christian Leadership / Christian Living / lay ministry
by Erin Carelse · Published May 29, 2019 · Last modified May 27, 2019
The Two Bishops Men’s Conference was held at Holy Family College in Glenmore, Durban. Cardinal Wilfrid Napier sent the following message: “What a pleasure and privilege to...
Christian Leadership / Christian Living / Church / Erin Carelse
by Erin Carelse · Published April 25, 2019 · Last modified April 24, 2019
South Africa’s Catholic university will be offering a short course in Christian business leadership (CBL) based on the teachings, philosophy and pedagogy of Fr Joseph Kentenich, applied...
Christen Torres / Christian Leadership / School News / Youth
by Christen Torres · Published December 5, 2018
IT costs up to R100000 to train a guide dog for the blind, and the South African Guide-Dogs Association for the Blind (GDA) has various programmes to raise money for the training of the dogs.
Fr Michael Seheri, of the archdiocese of Johannesburg, has lived in Italy since June 2010. He successfully defended his doctoral thesis, “The Abrahamic Covenant: A Study From a Canonical Perspective”, at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (or Santa Croce).
Christian Leadership / Church / Women and the Church
by Caleb SC · Published November 16, 2018 · Last modified November 15, 2018
Catholic Women Speak conference in Rome. A South African representative to a Catholic women’s conference in Rome last month has called for a synod on women. At the Catholic Women Speak conference in Rome, she noted that the needs of Catholic women in Africa or India differ from those in Europe or the US.
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