Southern Cross editor resigns Fr Owen McCann has resigned as editor of The Southern Cross after leading the newspaper for […]
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Celebrate Mary’s 2000th birthday At an open-air Assumption feast Mass in Lourdes attended by 180000 people, Pope John Paul II called
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Unjust elections in a climate of hope In a pastoral letter, the bishops of Southern Africa say that despite “deep
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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
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Pope hails moon landing Pope Paul VI has praised the first moon landing in what The Southern Cross calls a
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Prayers for the banned Those in power in South Africa cannot see the gulf between Christian civilisation and what their
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New bishop for Cape Town Bishop Francis Hennemann has been appointed vicar apostolic of the Western Vicariate to succeed Bishop
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Bishop condemns detention, intimidation Bishop John Murphy of Port Elizabeth has condemned the detention of three anti-apartheid activists—Sipho Bothile, Krishna
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