About us / Catholic Media / Church / Our New Magazine / Simmermacher
by Admin · Published September 18, 2020
Next week the final edition of The Southern Cross as a weekly newspaper will appear, in digital format only, as it has been since lockdown began almost six months ago. By then, the newly-launched monthly magazine,...
Climate change is real; its death and destruction is presently upon us, and it is projected to get much worse if far more aggressive national and international efforts to reverse it are not soon enacted...
Church / Fr John Allen Green / Mass / Scripture
by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published September 18, 2020 · Last modified September 16, 2020
Jesus was a tradesman, by tradition a carpenter or a stonemason. Jesus would have known what it meant to stand with other tradesmen and labourers at the gates of Caesarea waiting to be employed. Far...
Church / Feast Days / Mary / Our Lady / Prof Michael Ogunu
by Michael Ogunu · Published September 15, 2020
Today the Church marks the solemnity of Our Lady of Sorrows. PROF MICHAEL OGUNU explains the devotion. In the Middle Ages, Catholic theology concentrated mostly on Christ’s Passion—at the side of the Man of Sorrows,...
Church / Crisis / Jesus / Lionel Fynn
by Lionel Fynn · Published September 15, 2020 · Last modified September 11, 2020
While Covid-19 poses a credible threat to our ordinary way of life, restricting our movements, limiting our opportunities, and threatening our health, it also motivates us forward with hope that this current situation will pass. The...
Church / Fr John Allen Green / Mass / Scripture
by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published September 11, 2020 · Last modified September 10, 2020
“The gospel is profoundly scandalous, and until we hear at least a whisper of its scandal, we risk not hearing any part of it (Griffith, 1993, p. 1).” What have we done O Lord, what...
Church / Church Teaching / Imelda Diouf / Marriage
by Imelda Diouf · Published September 10, 2020 · Last modified September 7, 2020
In his article, “Marriage no longer means the same”, Fr Chris Townsend reflected on the different understandings of marriage of the state and the Church. He made the bold assertion: “Let’s face it: the law...
Bible / Church / Church Teaching / Priests / Shackleton
by Michael Shackleton · Published September 9, 2020 · Last modified September 7, 2020
According to Acts 6:5-6 the Apostles ordained seven men as deacons. Nowhere in the New Testament is there a record of men being ordained priests. How can we explain this? Surely the ordination of priests...
Church / Daluxolo Moloantoa / Religious Life
by Daluxolo Moloantoa · Published September 8, 2020 · Last modified September 6, 2020
By Daluxolo Moloantoa – One of the most heartwarming stories to come out of the lockdown is that of the #JerusalemaChallenge. People across the world have been dancing their way through lockdown with the locally-brewed...
About us / Christian Living / Church / Ntabeni / Our New Magazine
by Mphuthumi Ntabeni · Published September 8, 2020 · Last modified September 7, 2020
Like every avid reader of The Southern Cross, the news that the weekly newspaper version would be discontinued gave me a cold shock and a lump in my throat. I prayed, I still pray, that...
by Sydney Duval · Published September 5, 2020 · Last modified September 3, 2020
Today is the feast day of Mother Teresa – from our vaults, this is a recollection of when the saint came to South Africa. In November 1988 Mother Teresa visited South Africa. In Cape Town,...
Fr John Allen Green / Mass / Scripture
by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published September 4, 2020 · Last modified September 3, 2020
We look upon an ancient culture and religion with intricate laws and traditions. This is a society of child brides and slavery, a society in which women cannot bear witness. Contact with outsiders, gentiles, and...
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