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 message of hope as well as a...
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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” by the priest or bishop. As the...
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 of the faithful, the Vatican’s office for...
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 on your iPad, Kindle, Tablet etc: Pope...
Conclave at one glance
Catholic News Service has prepared this helpful graphic to explain what happens in a conclave. Click on the image to increase the size; when it opens click...
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 the Sistine Chapel in procession, aware of...
