Pope: Seek contact with nature to change polluting lifestyles
By Justin McLellan, CNS – Humanity must have more direct contact with nature to counter the modern lifestyles that are...
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The Southern Cross Visits Nazareth House in Pretoria
The Southern Cross visited the Nazareth House Chapel & Retirement Home in Pretoria yesterday. The chapel and the retirement home...
Mass Readings: 21 April – 28 April, 2024
Liturgical Calendar Year B – Weekday Cycle Year II Sunday April 21, 4th Sunday of Easter Acts 4: 8-12/ Ps...
Water, Blood and Fire
By Ralph de Hahn – Many great beginnings have insignificant endings; they just fade into the twilight of life. On the...
Pope pleads for military restraint in the Middle East
By Cindy Wooden, CNS – The morning after Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel, Pope Francis pleaded...
Are the Dead Aware of the Living?
Question: As a longtime practising Catholic, I would like to know whether the church has a position on whether those...
Father John Allen Green, Rest in Peace
Franciscan Father John Allen Green has died aged 72. Fr Green wrote our Sunday reflections online since 2018 and in...
Pope turns Rome catechism class into ‘school of prayer’
By Cindy Wooden, CNS – Pope Francis took over the catechism classes at St. John Vianney parish on the far...
Pope plans to travel to Asia in September, Vatican confirms
By Cindy Wooden, CNS – Pope Francis is planning to make the longest trip of his papacy in September, visiting...
