Hope&Joy – Page 3 – The Southern Cross

Mary and our faith

Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary is one of the things that differentiates Catholics from most other Christian denominations. To […]

Responding to the �new� question of workers� rights and organised trade unionism in the 19th century did not come easily

Pope John Paul II wrote in his encyclical Ut Unum Sint (1995) that the building of a better world requires

By Anthony Egan / April 22, 2012

Many centuries ago, a pope who was trying to build St Peter’s basilica in Rome started selling indulgences – literally

Salvation is the deliverance from sin and its consequences through Jesus Christ and is accessible to us all � regardless

By Anthony Egan / April 9, 2012

Prejudices � such as racism, sexism and homophobia, to name but three � die hard, not least those that seem

When in 1965 the assembled bishops of Vatican II with an overwhelming majority affirmed Nostra Aetate, the Declaration on the

Archbishop Denis Hurley worked in South Africa, Oscar Romero in El Salvador, Cesar Chavez in the United States, Kerry Kennedy

By Claire Mathieson / February 29, 2012

Today, every day around the country, Catholics are engaging scripture in their communities, homes, parishes and education centres � and