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Pope Pius XII speaks to South Africa Pope Pius XII has made his first radio broadcast to South Africa—the first...
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Catholic Church in KZN killing fields Following political assassinations in the Richmond area in KwaZulu-Natal’s Midlands that have claimed 30...
From Our Vaults 51 Years Ago: July 23, 1969
Pope hails moon landing Pope Paul VI has praised the first moon landing in what The Southern Cross calls a...
From Our Vaults: 48 Years Ago: July 19, 1972
Prayers for the banned Those in power in South Africa cannot see the gulf between Christian civilisation and what their...
From Our Vaults: 86 Years Ago: July 12, 1933
New bishop for Cape Town Bishop Francis Hennemann has been appointed vicar apostolic of the Western Vicariate to succeed Bishop...
From Our Vaults: 44 Years Ago: June 27, 1976
Bishop condemns detention, intimidation Bishop John Murphy of Port Elizabeth has condemned the detention of three anti-apartheid activists—Sipho Bothile, Krishna...
From Our Vaults 52 Years Ago: June 12, 1968
Robert F Kennedy, the Catholic Robert F Kennedy, the US presidential candidate who was assassinated on June 4, attended Mass...
From Our Vaults: Special Eucharistic Prayer
Eucharistic Prayer written especially for The Southern Cross by Msg Friedrich Carl Kolbe dated 5 June 1929
