Church / Church History / Saints / Women and the Church
by Admin · Published January 18, 2020 · Last modified January 14, 2020
In part 2 of the Pauline Jaricot story, Colleen Constable explains how Pauline was miraculously cured, how she handled betrayal and poverty, and what lessons her life holds for us today. Long before St...
Church / Church History / Parish Life
by Admin · Published January 14, 2020 · Last modified January 9, 2020
Fr Gerard Masters hands the gift of a chalice to Delores and Leonard van der Schyff of St Anne’s parish in Steenberg, Cape Town. The Van der Schyffs accepted the chalice, passed on by...
Church / Church History / Erin Carelse
by Erin Carelse · Published January 9, 2020 · Last modified January 6, 2020
Centocow mission in Umzimkulu diocese urgently needs donations and help to repair its church. The church is one of the 22 Trappist missions built by Abbot Francis Pfanner, the founder of Mariannhill, in the...
From a Catholic perspective, few if any dates were more significant during the soon-to-close decade than Feb. 11, 2013. On that day Pope Benedict XVI, citing his age and declining health, broke an 800-year...
Church / Church History / Simmermacher
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published December 31, 2019 · Last modified December 20, 2019
It was a year in which Church leaders talked tough on abuse, the pope visited our neighbourhood, South Africa was rocked by violence against women and foreign nationals, the world’s youth met in Panama,...
By Cindy Wooden – Demonstrating a strong “chain of abuse,” the Legionaries of Christ said its founder, the late Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, sexually abused at least 60 minors and that at least another 51...
Church / Church History / Prayer / Saints
by Tamar SC · Published December 26, 2019 · Last modified December 25, 2019
Fr Steve Grunow, Word on Fire Ministries – Today the Church remembers the witness of Saint Stephen, the first of the Church’s martyrs. The cruelty of his death is recorded in the Acts of...
Centenary Year / Church / Church History / From Our Vaults
by Tamar SC · Published December 26, 2019 · Last modified December 20, 2019
Every week for the duration of our 100th year, we dig an old issue of The Southern Cross out of our vaults, and highlight a few stories from that edition, as well as reproducing...
About us / Christmas / Church / Church History
by Admin · Published December 25, 2019 · Last modified December 17, 2019
The war-time Christmas edition of The Southern Cross in 1944 was a 12-page affair. GÜNTHER SIMMERMACHER steps into a time-capsule from 75 years ago. In 1944, the concerns of the Church were still with...
Christmas / Church / Church History
by Admin · Published December 24, 2019 · Last modified December 19, 2019
One of the great poets of the ages, St Ephrem of Syria left us with a treasure of profound Christmas reflections. Who was he, and what did he say about Christmas almost 1700 years...
Centenary Year / Church / Church History / From Our Vaults
by Tamar SC · Published December 22, 2019 · Last modified December 17, 2019
The Southern Cross banned! The Rhodesian government has banned The Southern Cross issue of December 8, 1965, which included an article headed “Blank space on page: Rhodesian government censors editorial in Catholic paper”. That...
Centenary Year / Church / Church History / From Our Vaults
by Tamar SC · Published December 13, 2019 · Last modified December 11, 2019
Every week for the duration of our 100th year, we dig out an old issue of The Southern Cross from our vaults, and highlight a few stories from that edition, as well as reproducing...
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