Shock over apartheid massacre Archbishops Denis Hurley and Owen McCann have expressed their shock and concern at the shootings in Sharpeville near Vereeniging and Langa in Cape Town. Archbishop Hurley said there is little...
Nazi annexation of Austria Following Nazi Germany’s Anschluss, or annexation of Austria, press reports speak of “a grave concern in the Vatican regarding Hitler’s latest coup, since Austria is essentially and traditionally a Catholic...
Centenary Year / From Our Vaults
by Tamar SC · Published March 8, 2020 · Last modified March 5, 2020
Bishops call for ‘Yes’ vote White South Africans have the chance to apologise for apartheid by voting a resounding “Yes” in President FW de Klerk’s referendum on March 17, said the Southern African Catholic...
Centenary Year / From Our Vaults / History of The Southern Cross
by Tamar SC · Published March 4, 2020 · Last modified March 2, 2020
Archbishop Napier becomes a cardinal Presiding over the largest consistory in history, Pope John Paul II created 44 new cardinals. They included Cardinal Wilfrid Napier, archbishop of Durban, who was the 24th of the...
SA bishops on Mandela’s release Welcoming the release from prison after 27 years of Nelson Mandela, the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference says that “his release hopefully signals the end to a particularly sad...
About us / Centenary Year / From Our Vaults / History of The Southern Cross
by Tamar SC · Published February 18, 2020 · Last modified February 14, 2020
New pope became cardinal last year The election of Cardinal Achilles Ratti of Milan to succeed Pope Benedict XV will not be a surprise to Vatican observers. The new pope was born in...
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by Tamar SC · Published February 17, 2020 · Last modified February 14, 2020
Cardinal detained in communist jailed Poland’s Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski is reportedly being held in the notorious Lubianka prison in Warsaw where detainees are usually “softened up” by torture before “confessions” are extracted from them,...
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by Tamar SC · Published January 31, 2020 · Last modified January 23, 2020
New hierarchy for SA The newly-established hierarchy of South Africa will have four metropolitan archdioceses, which will be headed by Archbishops Denis Hurley OMI (Durban), Owen McCann (Cape Town), John Garner (Pretoria) and Herman...
Centenary Year / From Our Vaults
by Tamar SC · Published January 25, 2020 · Last modified January 20, 2020
Second feast of Bl Benedict Daswa The celebrations of the second feast day of Bl Daswa, on February 1, will be held at Tshitanini village, where the beatification took place in 2015, and where...
About us / Centenary Year / From Our Vaults
by Tamar SC · Published January 15, 2020 · Last modified January 9, 2020
Death of SA’s great Churchman The great Churchman Mgr Frederick Kolbe has died in Cape Town, aged 82. Known to generations of Catholic children as “Uncle Joe”, Mgr Kolbe retained his faculties until the...
Centenary Year / From Our Vaults / History of The Southern Cross
by Tamar SC · Published January 5, 2020
Every week for the duration of our 100th year, we dig an old issue of The Southern Cross out of our vaults, and highlight a few stories from that edition, as well as reproducing its...
Centenary Year / Church / Church History / From Our Vaults
by Tamar SC · Published December 26, 2019 · Last modified December 20, 2019
Every week for the duration of our 100th year, we dig an old issue of The Southern Cross out of our vaults, and highlight a few stories from that edition, as well as reproducing...
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