Southern Cross Editor: The Day My Knees Shook
Dear Reader, This month marks 25 years since abortion became legal in South Africa. Our readers, of course, need not be reminded of the Catholic Church’s teachings...
Abortion / Church / Church History / Editorials 2022 / History / Our New Magazine / Simmermacher
by Editor · Published January 28, 2022
Dear Reader, This month marks 25 years since abortion became legal in South Africa. Our readers, of course, need not be reminded of the Catholic Church’s teachings...
Question: A friend claims that William Shakespeare was a Catholic? I had not heard that before. Is it true? Answer: We cannot prove that Shakespeare was a...
Church / Church History / History / Marian Shrines / Mary / Nthabiseng Maphisa / Pilgrimage
by Nthabiseng Maphisa · Published July 27, 2021
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...
Priest on political trial Fr Dominic Scholten OP, secretary-general of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference, has pleaded not guilty to three charges of having owned and/or...
Church / History / Raymond Perrier
by Raymond Perrier · Published June 25, 2021 · Last modified July 26, 2021
Your faithful columnist popped over from Durban to Cape Town in April and shared a round of coffee with your (and my) editor, Günther Simmermacher, and...
Bishops / Church / Church History / History
by admin · Published December 21, 2020 · Last modified November 28, 2020
The January edition of The Southern Cross features an article on the 70th anniversary of Pope Pius XII establishing the Catholic Hierarchy of Southern Africa. It is...
by Chris Townsend · Published February 12, 2019 · Last modified February 15, 2019
Holidays are a great time to chill, relax and have a chance to allow your mind to wonder. I am not a New Year’s resolution type of...
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published September 1, 2018 · Last modified November 1, 2018
A memoir by a Catholic author about growing up under apartheid has been a surprise bestseller in South Africa this year. Günther Simmermacher interviewed Beryl Crosher-Segers. What...
Church / Church History / History
by Kilian SC · Published June 30, 2018 · Last modified June 29, 2018
Jesuit Father Guy Tachard, an astronomer and something of a secret agent, visited the Cape of Good Hope in 1685 and again two years later. While he...
A DARKER SHADE OF PALE, by Beryl Crosher-Segers. Torchflame Books, Durham NC, 2018. 243pp Reviewed by Günther Simmermacher The rich body of literature on the subject of...
Father Pat Connor was on his way from a graduate class at the University of Memphis to St. Joseph Hospital to visit a priest friend the evening of April 4, 1968.
King William’s Town Dominicans celebrated their 140th anniversary in South Africa with a jubilee Mass in Johannesburg led by Auxiliary Bishop Duncan Tsoke.
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