Award-winning foreign correspondent Peter Greste, who spent 400 days in an Egyptian gaol after being charged with terrorism offences, has told Catholic media that there needs to be a way of upholding the principles and ethics of journalism in the digital age.
Charlotte Szekely (born April 7 1939, died June 17 1924).
For Passionist priests Fr Joash Oloo Okeyo CP and Fr Julius Philip Ouma Nyandiga CP, accepting an offer from their Superior to come to Australia was a lot easier than saying goodbye to the communities they served in Kenya.
Fr Tony Egar CP has moved 14 times in his 60 years as a Passionist priest but one constant has been the influence of his three ‘families’ along the journey. The sprightly 84 year old spoke to The Southern Cross after his diamond jubilee on July 18.
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Jodie Clark has quite possibly the toughest job in the world. As head of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza, she is responsible for getting desperately needed food, medicine, fuel and other supplies to more than 2 million Palestinians.
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One of the earlier songs of the Irish rock group U2 was 'I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For'.
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If it wasn’t for a typhoon and ensuing landslide that destroyed her family’s crops, Sr Josie Labata SJBP might still be living in a mountain village on the island of Leyte in the Philippines.
During National Vocations Awareness Week, Sr Jenny Seal fdnsc, coordinator of the South Australian Vocations Network (SAVN), invited us to reflect upon the vocation to which we are called.
There’s a sense of calm at the Sevenhill Centre of Jesuit and Ignatian Spirituality. Cows graze the nearby farmland as winter mist drifts through the ground’s historic vineyard and Sevenhill Cellars, the oldest winery in South Australia’s Clare Valley, and the birthplace of the Jesuits in Australia.
Over two weeks, 15 students and two teachers from Tenison Woods College, Mount Gambier, were recently immersed in the culture and faith of the people of Timor-Leste. Fr Olek Stirrat was among them and reports on the journey.
Taking refuge in a bomb shelter, the sounds of air-raid sirens filling the air, Bob Becker was angry.
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