What is the Cross on Our Cover?
Question: I’ve noticed that each month, the cover of The Southern Cross features a cross with four smaller crosses. What do these crosses denote, and why are...
About us / Church / Question & Answer / Simmermacher / The Holy Land
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published April 5, 2022
Question: I’ve noticed that each month, the cover of The Southern Cross features a cross with four smaller crosses. What do these crosses denote, and why are...
By Judith Sudilovsky – A Benedictine priest told a Jewish delegation visiting his monastery that the monks know the perpetrators of vandalism represented a small minority of...
By Junno Arocho Esteves – In a time when social networks can tend to divide people, Christian media must instead work to unite men and women, Pope...
By Judith Sudilovsky – When restoration on the Church of the Nativity’s wooden beams and the leaking roof began in 2013 with the blessing of the three...
Pope Francis urged Catholics in the Middle East on Sunday to “be the salt of your lands” as their bishops consecrated the region to the Holy Family....
Bishops / Church / Crisis / The Holy Land
by admin · Published May 21, 2021 · Last modified May 22, 2021
The Catholic archbishop of Cape Town has called for an investigation by the International Criminal Court “into possible war crimes” committed in the Holy Land, so that...
By Judith Sudilovsky – The palm tree fronds in the convent garden of the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary rustle loudly in the brisk...
Christian Living / Church / The Holy Land
by CNA · Published March 26, 2021 · Last modified March 25, 2021
Christians will struggle to remain in the Holy Land without financial help from Catholics worldwide on Good Friday, a Vatican cardinal has said. In a letter, Cardinal Leonardo...
By Julie Asher – Before he became guardian and commissary of the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington in 2013, Franciscan Father Larry Dunham made...
Bishops / Church / The Holy Land
by CNS · Published January 23, 2021 · Last modified January 21, 2021
By Judith Sudilovsky – Bishops who spent six days visiting virtually with Christians in the Holy Land said “it has become painfully clear that there is today less...
By Judith Sudilovsky – Israeli police arrested a Jewish man after he allegedly threw a firebomb inside the Basilica of All Nations at Gethsemane Church on the...
Church / Crisis / The Holy Land
by CNS · Published October 23, 2020 · Last modified October 21, 2020
By Judith Sudilovsky – The uncharacteristic silence at the hermitage of the Garden of Gethsemane was, in a way, fitting to the current world situation, said Franciscan...
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