St Teresa of Avila Feast Day
Visit St Teresa with The Southern Cross and Archbishop Stephen Brislin in her birthplace of Avila and her tomb in...
Feast Days
Why Cross Beats Nought
When my four children were growing up they went through a phase of being mad about playing the game Noughts...
30 000 Catholics Expected at Lourdes
Up to 30,000 Catholics are expected to join the national pilgrimage, led by Cardinal Philippe Barbarin of Lyon. The pilgrimage...
Salt+Light: Mary Magdalene: the mislabeled woman
Some of the Salt + Light team went to the Holy Land on a pilgrimage. We had the opportunity to...
Corpus Christi: Jesus’ Gift of Himself
A Corpus Christi procession should honour Christ’s gift of himself in the Eucharist, but also should be a pledge to...
Trinity Sunday
Today is the feast of the Trinity – The Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The doctrine of the Trinity is…...
The 99th Anniversary of the Fatima Marian Apparition
Missed the Our Lady of Fatima Poster? The Southern Cross Newspaper May 4 edition carried a beautiful poster of the statue...
Each in Our Own Language
We remain as amazed as those crowds were on the first Pentecost Sunday that poorly educated fishermen from an obscure...
The Assumption Gives us Hope
Eastern Churches and some Anglicans are one with the Catholic Church in the belief that Mary was assumed body and...
