The Graces of an Ireland Pilgrimage
The Southern Cross pilgrimage to Ireland in August was a journey of faith with moments of tourism — and sometimes […]
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Knock: A Place Where Our Lady Was Silent
Unlike most other Marian apparitions, that in Knock was silent. Having visited Knock as part of the Southern Cross pilgrimage
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Church Feast Days Simmermacher The Holy Land
Where is the Real Place of the Tranfiguration?
Tradition holds that the Transfiguration of Jesus took place on Mount Tabor, the 586 metre-high bluff which overlooks the Jezreel (or Esdraelon) plains.
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When ‘Rosary Priest’ Fr Patrick Peyton came to South Africa
Fr Patrick Peyton (1909-1992) was a dynamic advocate for family prayer and a trailblazer in radio broadcast and televised evangelisation.
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Visit to a Catholic Land
There is always something salutary about visiting, if one can, a place with deep Catholic roots — especially if
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Bible Jesus Simmermacher The Holy Land
Finding Jesus at the Waters
In biblical times, as today, water was vital: to be hydrated, to stay clean, to produce crops, to raise livestock. Water was life. So it is no accident that so many crucial events in the Gospel take place around water: the Sea of Galilee, the River Jordan, and the various wells and healing pools.
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