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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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by Tamar SC · Published December 22, 2019 · Last modified December 17, 2019
The Southern Cross banned! The Rhodesian government has banned The Southern Cross issue of December 8, 1965, which included an article headed “Blank space on page: Rhodesian government censors editorial in Catholic paper”. That...
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by Tamar SC · Published December 13, 2019 · Last modified December 11, 2019
Every week for the duration of our 100th year, we dig out an old issue of The Southern Cross from our vaults, and highlight a few stories from that edition, as well as reproducing...
About us / Centenary Year / From Our Vaults / History of The Southern Cross
by Tamar SC · Published December 5, 2019 · Last modified December 1, 2019
Every week for the duration of our 100th year, we dig an old issue of The Southern Cross out of our vaults. Italian friar “Padre Pio” makes news Considerable interest has centred lately on...
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by Tamar SC · Published November 27, 2019 · Last modified November 25, 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 its front-page....
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