The Peace I Found at Ngome
On a brightly-lit Tuesday morning, a cautiously optimistic city dweller left the potholed roads that wind through urban life for the meadows of rural KwaZulu-Natal. There, upon...
Category: Church History
Magna Carta Illustrates the ties Democracy has to the Bible
By Maisy Sullivan – The star document of a new exhibit at the Museum of the Bible in Washington is the 1217 Magna Carta, which regulated the...
US Dioceses respond to pope’s document restoring limits on pre-Vatican II Mass
By Maria Wiering – Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis said on July 16 that, for now, parishes that celebrate Mass in the extraordinary...
Oblates of Mary apologise for ‘deafness’ in response to reports of graves at indigenous schools
The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate had significant responsibility for operating residential schools for Canada’s First Nations and other indigenous people. With the rediscovery of graves at...
Bishop Supports Apology on Papal Bulls that Justified Indigenous Oppression
By Renée Gadoua – Bishop Douglas Lucia, whose downtown Syracuse office sits on the ancestral lands of the Onondaga Nation, hopes to meet with Pope Francis “to...
Traditional Latin Mass advocates appeal to Pope to protect Summorum Pontificum
A federation that advocates for the Traditional Latin Mass has appealed to Pope Francis to protect it from those “within the Church, including some bishops, who would...
Catholic Trivia Quiz
How well do you know your Church? Test your knowledge in every issue of the Southern Cross magazine – 1.Whose Gospel opens with the words: “In the...
From Our Vaults 58 Years Ago: June 1963
Death of Pope John XXIII Pope John XXIII died on June 3 “like a saint”, according to Cardinal Augustin Bea, who visited the Holy Father on his...
Forgiveness For All or For Many?
By Father Kenneth Doyle – Question: During Mass, at the consecration of the wine, the priest says, “for the forgiveness of many.” Why not “for the forgiveness...
Formal Catholic-Lutheran Dialogue Proceeds
After receiving the gift of a chalice from leaders of the Lutheran World Federation, Pope Francis said divided Christians should suffer because they cannot share the Eucharist,...
History in Colour: Death of Pope John XXIII
This month 58 years ago – A snapshot from the past, colourised exclusively for The Southern Cross The body of Pope John XXIII is carried in St...
Book Investigates the Lynching of SA Nun
BLOODY SUNDAY: The Nun, the Defiance Campaign and South Africa’s Secret Massacre, by Mignonne Breier. Tafelberg, Cape Town (2021). 285pp. Reviewed by Günther Simmermacher It requires courage and...
