The Sekwele Centre for Family Studies, based in Bethlehem, Free State, conducted its brief online survey under the theme “Family and Pastoral Plans” to assess participation and response to the Pastoral Plan, which was launched...
Chatteris / Family / Pope Francis / Pray with The Pope / Prayer
by Chris Chatteris · Published July 1, 2020 · Last modified June 28, 2020
Pope’s Universal Prayer Intention: That today’s families may be accompanied with love, respect and guidance. The great value of family connections As a great-uncle, I watch the progress of my nephew and niece’s families with...
Go back to your households, your homes, your families. Go back to the place of resilience, of strength, of support—or possibly go back to the place of dysfunction, of anxiety, of pain. The president has...
Christian Living / Church / Education / Family
by Admin · Published February 4, 2020 · Last modified January 30, 2020
New start, fresh perspectives and yet some things stayed the same. As always, on school days a woman accompanies her children on a 3km uphill journey. I’ve watched them for five years: slim mother and...
By Cindy Wooden – Pope Francis prayed that people all over the world would end 2019 “in peace, peace in their hearts,” and that families would mark New Year’s by “communicating with one another.” Reciting...
by Toni Rowland · Published November 5, 2019 · Last modified December 1, 2019
Before I started writing this article I was reading the October 16 issue of The Southern Cross. A few things in particular struck me as particularly interesting. The Southern Cross enters its centenary year; Radio...
Church / Education / Erin Carelse / Family
by Erin Carelse · Published October 29, 2019 · Last modified October 27, 2019
Zaine Perry has received a special achievement award for not missing a day of school in 14 years, an achievement his mother Michelle Perry, Southern Cross subscriptions administrator, says is due to his hard work...
Working with family themes month by month has been quite useful for me to reflect more deeply on the domestic church, or the little church of the home, on how God is present in different...
by Rob & Mahadi Buthelezi · Published April 25, 2019 · Last modified April 24, 2019
By Mahadi and Rob Buthelezi – Who am I and who are you? What is your make-up, your DNA? Or, put differently, what genes do you wear? In our family ministry, we put this...
Christian Living / Church / Family / Lent / Rowland
by Toni Rowland · Published March 30, 2019 · Last modified March 29, 2019
Someone said to me the other day that your Lenten sacrifice should be your secret with God. That sounds fine, to a point. I also know that in my family over very many years, whatever...
by Toni Rowland · Published February 1, 2019 · Last modified January 31, 2019
It’s quite a number of years now that I have been submitting this column under the heading “Family Friendly”. Apart from the feedback I get from time to time, I do sometimes wonder whether the...
Janine Scott dos Santos’ son has autism, a condition still not understood well by society. Here she shares her journey. ‘These days, everybody has a label. When we were kids, there was no autism, or...
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