Woman & the Church: Why the Church Will Not Ordain Women
By Jason Scott – Recently, a Vatican study commission voted definitively against ordaining women as deacons. The decision followed years...
Church History
Brian Bishop: An Apostle of Justice
Forty years ago, Catholic anti-apartheid activist Brian Bishop died in a traffic collision, alongside fellow activist Molly Blackburn. Here we...
Presenting Catholic Heritage and Legacy to the Apostolic Nuncio
Southern Cross features writer Daluxolo Moloantoa recently had the honour of presenting the Vatican’s representative in South Africa, the Apostolic...
St Joseph’s Children’s Home: SA’s only Catholic Children’s Hospital
In 1935, five Pallottine Sisters opened a small ward for sick children in Cape Town. Ninety years on, St Joseph’s...
Pope: Christian Archaeology Can Serve Evangelisation
By Carol Glatz, CNS – Christian archaeology seeks to see, hear and touch the Word made flesh, Pope Leo XIV...
Bethel Parish in Mohale’s Hoek, Lesotho is 116 years old
By Bokang Tsoanamatsie – Bethel Parish is among the oldest missions within the diocese of Mohale’s Hoek, constructed in honour...
Forging a Catholic Link
The Catholic Link, published every week by the Redemptorists, is a popular newsletter in many parishes in South Africa, with...
Catholic Institute of Education’s 40 years of Creating Futures
In 1985 the bishops founded the Catholic Institute of Education. We look at 40 years of the role the CIE has...
Book Review: Benedict, Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates
Reviewed by Günther Simmermacher BENEDICT, BALTIMORE AND THE BARBARY PIRATES: The untold, true story of an African slave who became a Christian wonder-worker,...
