Mary’s Family Tree
Question: Please explain the family tree of the Virgin Mary. I cannot find it in the Bible and I’m not sure where it came from or if...
Category: Saints
Father Emil Kapaun Welcomed Home
By Christopher Riggs – The flag-draped casket was empty during a memorial Mass in Wichita for Father Emil J. Kapaun on July 29, 1953. The casket at...
9/11 anniversary renews call of sainthood for Franciscan priest
By Mark Pattison – The 20th-anniversary remembrances of the 9/11 terror attacks in the United States is renewing a canonisation push for the first identified casualty: Franciscan...
Mother of three declared venerable by the Church
By Junno Arocho Esteves – Pope Francis advanced the sainthood cause of a young mother of three who died of cancer after delaying chemotherapy treatment in order...
South Korean diocese says remains of first Catholic martyrs recovered
The mortal remains of the first three Korean Catholic martyrs have been recovered more than two centuries after their deaths, announced the Diocese of Jeonju. Ucanews.com reported...
Novena to St Francis: For a World Under Threat
Download Novena to St Francis Thanks to CAFOD (https://cafod.org.uk/) for the Novena
El Salvador sets date for four beatifications in January
By Rhina Guidos – El Salvador has set a January 22 date for the beatifications of Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande, Franciscan Father Cosme Spessotto and two laymen,...
Catholic Trivia Quiz
How well do you know your Church? Test your knowledge in every issue of the Southern Cross magazine – Which future pope visited South Africa in 1962?...
Bake Bread for St Anthony
Saint Anthony of Padua was born in 1195 in Lisbon, Portugal, as Fernando Martins de Bulhões. He loved the poor and was a mighty preacher. He died in 1232 in Padua, Italy, where he is entombed in the city’s great basilica.
British Museum honours St Thomas Becket on the 850th anniversary of his death
By Jonathan Luxmoore – In a gallery of The British Museum, light plays on an array of medieval crosses, reliquaries and manuscripts, as an audiovisual display reenacts...
Why does the Church deny St Christopher?
By Günther Simmermacher – Question: When I was a child, my parents always prayed to St Christopher when we went on a journey. We also had a...
Australian outback school named for teen on way to sainthood
By Marilyn Rodrigues – An Australian outback diocese has announced what is believed to be the world’s first high school to be named after a teenage computer...
