Pope Gregory decreed Catholic priests and nuns should be celibate because he wanted to reduce the temptation of bending the law to favour blood relatives. Is this an accurate statement?
Celibacy for Priests: Let’s Go Back to Year 1074 Read Post »
How well do you know your Church? Test your knowledge in every issue of the Southern Cross magazine – Which
Catholic Trivia Quiz Read Post »
Fr Smangaliso Mkhatshwa, banned Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference official, is visited by SACBC president Archbishop Joseph Fitzgerald in the winter
History in Colour: Banning of Fr Smangaliso Mkhatshwa Read Post »
By Jonathan Luxmoore – In a gallery of The British Museum, light plays on an array of medieval crosses, reliquaries
British Museum honours St Thomas Becket on the 850th anniversary of his death Read Post »
In her new book Bloody Sunday, MIGNONNE BREIER investigates the mob killing of a Dominican Sister in 1952, and the circumstances
This was Dominican Sister Aiden Quinlan Read Post »
On August 15, Catholics around the world mark the Feast of the Assumption of Mary. This year it falls on a Sunday
What You Must Know about the Assumption Read Post »
By Anli Serfontein – Catholics and Protestants gathered on August 13 to remember the day in 1961 when their city was
Archbishop says Berlin Wall was a Good Friday in German history Read Post »
Before his beatification in September 2015, Benedict Tshimangadzo Daswa’s remains were exhumed and transferred to the church in Nweli, Limpopo,
Blessed Benedict Daswa: 75 years after his birth Read Post »
On a brightly-lit Tuesday morning, a cautiously optimistic city dweller left the potholed roads that wind through urban life for
The Peace I Found at Ngome Read Post »
