Vatican Christmas stamps celebrate Holy Year opening
By CNS – With the Holy Year 2025 beginning on Christmas Eve, the Vatican’s 2024 Christmas stamps feature the Jubilee...
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Partners in mission: Dicastery promotes ‘co-responsibility’ of clergy, laity
By Cindy Wooden, CNS – For too many Catholics, ordained or lay, the responsibilities of the laity are those “delegated”...
Let Us Return to the Eucharist With Joy!
Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments Church services and Mass online cannot compare to or replace the in-person participation...
Free e-book: Pope Francis’ ‘Lumen fidei’
Download Pope Francis full encyclical Lumen fidei as an e-book created exclusively for The Southern Cross. It suitable for reading...
Conclave at one glance
Catholic News Service has prepared this helpful graphic to explain what happens in a conclave. Click on the image to...
Prayer and trembling: Cardinals recount experience of conclave
Chanting the Litany of the Saints, asking a host of holy men and women to help them, the cardinals enter...
