Choose the Better Part: 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sermon by Emmanuel Suntheni OSB – Sixteenth Sunday In Ordinary Time – Year C Sermon And Christian Act In The Word Theme: True Hospitality! What are you concerned with...
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Maria Mater Ecclesiae Parish In Garankuwa Welcomes New Sacred Heart Sodality Members
Maria Mater Ecclesiae parish in Garankuwa held a welcoming ceremony for three new members of the Sacred Heart Sodality. The new members, Mrs Anastacia Mphaka, Mr Madoda...
The Church in the Modern World
About 60 days ago, some 133 cardinals were meeting in conclave in Rome to choose our new pope. And 60 years ago, a much larger group of bishops...
10 Years Later: The Green Encyclical is Alive and Well!
By Tony Magliano – Ten years ago, Pope Francis wrote the first environmental encyclical letter in the history of the Catholic Church. As he was writing it, so...
Be a Neighbour: 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sermon by Emmanuel Suntheni OSB – Fifteenth Sunday In Ordinary Time – Year C Sermon And Christian Act In The Word Theme: Be a Neighbour and Be...
Some Famous Benedictines
There have been 17 Benedictine popes — and none of them took the name Benedict. The first of them was Pope St Gregory the Great (590-604). Gregory...
Catholic Men’s Association Launches at St Josephs, Oukasie in Brits
In a heartfelt ceremony enriched by beautiful music and singing, the Catholic Men’s Association (CMA) welcomed six new members into its fold on July 6 at St...
Shrines around the World: Our Lady of Africa, Algeria
Where’s that: Algiers, the capital of mainly Muslim Algeria. Our Lady’s connection: A statue of Mary as a black woman. Our Lady of Africa calls us to...
Pray with the Pope: Learn to Discern
Intention: Let us pray that we might again learn how to discern, to know how to choose paths of life and reject everything that leads us away...
Leo XIV: The First Pop Age Pope
Dear Reader, With this issue we welcome our new Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV. The long turnaround of printing and distributing The Southern Cross meant that our June...
