Faith

Question – Friends who recently returned from Rome told me about seeing the Confession in St Peter’s Basilica. I have...

Question – Over the years several people have told me they visited St Peter’s tomb beneath the Vatican Basilica. I...

LITURGICAL studies expert and Parramatta diocese vicar general Fr Peter Williams is leading a public lecture exploring ars celebrandi, a...

By Fr John Flader Question – When Christ died on the cross, St Matthew says that tombs were opened and...

By Lindsey Weishar During Lent, I found myself time and again alongside Mary Magdalene. She may be one of the...

By Bishop Tim Harris AT the writing of this short reflection, the war in Ukraine continues to produce horrific scenes...

By Bishop Michael McCarthy  THE year has been off to a turbulent beginning - with the COVID wave, unrest in...

By Archbishop Mark Coleridge IN considering Easter, we need to be clear about two things: first, that Easter isn’t “once...

By Bishop Robert McGuckin DID you find Lent a challenging time? I think we can all say that so far...

By Bishop Tim Norton AUSTRALIAN philosopher and writer Michael Leunig published a pre-Easter cartoon some years ago with one smiling...

By Fr John Flader Question – Some friends are going to Rome for Holy Week and they were talking about...

By Terry Lees DID you know that the oldest Nobel Laureate Prize winner was Leonid Hurwicz at the age of...

“Grace be with you who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an incorruptible love” (Eph 6:24) By Archbishop Mark Coleridge...

AFTER what must be a hundred screenings of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy and a couple false...

AS Russia intensifies its attacks on Ukraine, faith leaders across the world are calling for all of us to intensify...

By Shane Dwyer WE are all aware that things have been difficult in 2022. Weather events and international tensions have...

By Father Cassidy Stinson “BLESSED are the clean of heart, for they will see God” (Mt 5:8). I, like many...

CO-EXISTENCE between older and younger generations can bring about a better appreciation for life that is often lost in today’s...

By Fr John Flader Question – If someone has not been validly baptised, does that render all the other sacraments...

By Terry Lees IN the first column of this series, January 2017, I wrote that I love sunrises and sunsets....

DARWIN diocese has found the friendliest croc to be the face, or snout, of a new teaching initiative for children....

“WHAT would the Church be without religious sisters and consecrated laywomen? The Church cannot be understood without them,” Pope Francis...

RECENTLY, in Colombia, Victor Escobar and Martha Sepulveda received euthanasia within a few hours of each other. In both cases,...

By Exaudi.org SAINT Joseph the carpenter shows us the importance of human work in God’s plan, Pope Francis said during...

By Fr Mario Arroyo Martinez I AM transcribing a conversation in my Theology class: “Why did God create the universe?”...