The Southern Cross The Southern Cross

Read the latest edition. Latest edition
Fr Dean Marin

Director of Vocations

Fr Dean Marin

Articles by Fr Dean

Get The Southern Cross delivered straight to your inbox twice per month.

Thanks for signing up to the Southern Cross newsletter.

Vocations

Our hearts are restless

As the Church celebrates National Vocations Awareness Week from August 3-10, Fr Dean Marin turns to St Augustine to reveal the transforming power of God’s call.

Opinion

Reflecting on the feast of the Holy Innocents

The children that Herod killed in attempting to eliminate the Christ-child are considered martyrs. Their lives were taken in witness to Christ. They are not forgotten but remembered each year in our Masses and prayers on December 28, the feast of the Holy Innocents.

Opinion

He loved us

The love of God expressed through the human heart of Jesus is the theme of Pope Francis’ latest encyclical Dilexit Nos (He Loved Us).