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THE commemoration of all the faithful departed – All Souls Day – is celebrated by the Church on today ....

NEW research from the Australian Institute of Family Studies reported almost 30 per cent of 18-19 year olds have experienced...

AS Halloween grows in popularity in Australia, Catholics here are contending with a question that has haunted the United States...

HOW we imagine Heaven can make a difference. For me, it is Gustav Dore’s Rosa Celeste – his illustration of...

BISHOP Robert Barron said he regrets the Catholic Church’s “hand-wringing” in recent decades over how to share the Christian message...

By Fr John Flader Question - There is a woman in our parish who has been consecrated as a hermit....

THIS year St John Paul II’s feast day, October 22, fell on a Sunday and while the Sunday feast took...

By Fr John Flader Question - I know that St Helena ordered the building of the Church of the Holy...

On October 18, Catholics celebrate the feast of St Luke, the physician and companion of St Paul whose gospel preserved...

By Francisco Bobadilla ST John Paul II, a great devotee of the Virgin Mary, dedicated the apostolic exhortation, The Rosary...

SO often, when reading the prophets of the Old Testament we see these words: “The Word of the Lord was...

By Fr John Flader Question – In Mass recently we had a reading from St Paul to Timothy about how...

TODAY we celebrate the feast of St Gerard Majella. St Gerard was born the son of a tailor on April...

FLEMISH brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck’s masterpiece, the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, was completed in 1432 – but...

TODAY the Church remembers one of the most popular popes of all time, St John XXIII, who from reigned 1958–63....

By Michael Howard THE Holy Rosary has been drawing people to Jesus’ side for more than 800 years. Its significance...

POPE Francis’ Laudate Deum, an update to his encyclical Laudato Si’, is a heartfelt and frustrated warning about a malicious...

THE three Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, whose feast day is celebrated today in the Church, are the only angels...

By Michael Howard BORN into peasantry, kidnapped into slavery and finally a spiritual advisor to the Queen of France, St...

CATHOLICS are invited to contemplate the seven sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary in a special way on September 15,...

By Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge THE Referendum on the Voice brings Australia to a threshold moment, since it looks not...

POPE Francis continues to make surprise additions to the College of Cardinals with plenty of "firsts," and perhaps the most...

DOROTHY Day was “a great witness to faith, hope and charity in the 20th century,” a woman who loved the...

OUR Lady of Guadalupe proclaimed the Gospel in “mother tongue,” Pope Francis said on Wednesday in a message that highlighted...

By Bishop Robert Barron TODAY the Church celebrates the feast of the Queenship of Mary.  I would imagine that most...