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...
Category: The Holy Land
Monk: Vandalism at Holy Land abbey Caused by Small Minority
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...
Pope: Christian Media Must Unite People
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...
Restoration at Church of the Nativity shows what cooperation can do
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 appeals to Holy Land Catholics as bishops consecrate Middle East to Holy Family
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....
Archbishop: Probe war crimes in Holy Land
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...
In Silent Church of the Beatitudes, Franciscan Nuns Expand their Prayers
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...
Vatican Cardinal to Catholics: This year’s Good Friday collection vital for Holy Land Christians
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...
Franciscans Mark 600 years as Guardians of Christendom’s Most Sacred Sites
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, visiting Holy Land virtually, see ‘less cause for optimism’
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...
Church of the Gethsemane in Jerusalem Firebombed
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...
Priest: This Year, We Can Recognise Gethsemane In The Whole World
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...
