The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

RALPH Hickey knelt in the kitchen and sent a desperate plea to heaven as the Japanese advanced towards Australia. It was 1942 and Ralph was 12 years old. Japanese forces had bombed Pearl Harbour and an invasion fleet was heading for Papua New Guinea. With American bombers flying overhead and the Allied fleet gathering in the Coral Sea, Ralph and ... Read More »

CATHOLIC leaders joined in commemorations of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, where 1.2 million mostly Jewish prisoners were killed by the Nazis during World War II. “When we ask how God was present in the hell of Auschwitz, we must remember God’s last word is one of peace,” Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow, Poland, ... Read More »