Sacraments – Page 17 – The Southern Cross

How Long for Confession?

I went to a communal penitential service in Advent, thinking that six priests would get through the confessions faster than […]

By Letters Editor / January 13, 2017

John Lee, Johannesburg – Do we Catholics realise how neccessary it is for us to explain to fundamentalists and other

By asiel / January 13, 2017

By Julia Beacroft – My younger son is something of a maverick. He has always been mischievous, unpredictable and a

News of earthquakes prompted my class to ask this question: If a church is destroyed by a quake and the

By Kilian SC / December 8, 2016

A Swiss bishop has instructed Catholic priests not to give last rites to people suspected of seeking assisted suicide, following

By Tamar SC / November 23, 2016

Four cardinals said they formally asked Pope Francis to clarify his teaching on Communion for the divorced and civilly remarried

By Jael SC / November 4, 2016

The Catholic Church continues to insist that sharing the sacrament of Communion will be a sign that Christian churches have

We are in the middle of First Holy Communion season. Although there is no fixed liturgical feast for this, many

A fellow Catholic I know went to confession. The priest apparently declined to give absolution. I was not told why.