The Church in Ireland is Still Present
After going on pilgrimage in Ireland last month, Southern Cross editor GÜNTHER SIMMERMACHER found a diminished but still present Church....
Perspectives
Fr Chris Townsend: I’m More than a ‘Parish Pump Jockey’
In order to break the current model of the parish church as a service centre, like a filling station, I...
Active Nonviolence: Rediscovering a Central Teaching of Jesus
“But to you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who...
Pilgrimage to Ireland in Pictures
In August, a group of Southern Cross pilgrims, led by Bishop Victor Phalana of Klerksdorp, travelled to Ireland, with the itinerary framed around the anniversary of the apparition of Our Lady at Knock in the west of the country, and the papal Mass to close the World Meeting of Families in Dublin’s Phoenix Park.
I Have No Answers but Many Questions
The widely reported instances of sexual abuse and sexual misconduct of the clergy — two separate concepts civilly but equally...
Let’s Hear it For Music!
I like to think that there is a song for every moment in our lives. In times of joy, rings...
The Urgent Need for a Moral Values-Centred Education
While many Southern African children, teens and adults fortunate enough to have access to formal education are hard at work...
Catholics Who Do the Devil’s Work
The last place you’d expect to find a practising Catholic to ply his trade is in a satanic rock group called Deicide. But so it was with Ralph Santolla, a guitarist who died in June at the age of 51.
Celebrating Our Lady’s Birthday
The celebration of the feast of the Nativity of Our Blessed Lady occurs every year on September 8. Oddly, despite...
