Simmermacher

Last month the Vatican hosted something quite new: the International Catholic Film Festival, which was held Rome from May 12-21....

In September, God willing, I’ll be going on my fifth pilgrimage to the Holy Land, this time with Bishop Zithulele...

Nothing can confuse communication as much as words. One can choose them as carefully as possible, shooting for pin-point accuracy...

Blasphemy: we know the definition  profaning the sacred  but there seems to be little consensus about when exactly the sacred...

Archbishop Denis Hurley would have approved of a pilgrimage to Robben Island in his honour taking on a profoundly ecumenical...

This is the full text of the address by Southern Cross editor Günther Simmermacher at the launch of Paddy Kearney’s...

Saturday morning, and my cellphone rings. On the other side is an amicable fellow, effusively informing me of the privilege...

When the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano recently ran an article praising the Beatles’ 1968 White Album (officially titled simply The...