Faith

VANESSA Comninos was asleep when Australia's Plenary Council was deliberating the role of women in the Catholic Church on July...

CATHOLICS must counter toxicity in social media, engage in dialogue and education to deal with “lies and misinformation”, Pope Francis...

By Fr John Flader Question – In my travels I have attended Mass in many parishes and have seen it...

ARE funeral rites still meaningful in modern secular society?  Liturgy expert Fr Paul Turner hopes to address this question in...

Part of the Australian Catholic Church’s reconciliation and healing will be to introduce indigenous culture into the Catholic liturgy, as...

UNITED States priest Fr Mike Schmitz, the voice behind the “Bible in a Year” podcast, is set to launch a...

Question – In paragraph 226 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church there is a prayer attributed to St Nicholas...

SO many significant moments in my spiritual life are tied to sights, smells, sounds and emotions felt on a pilgrimage....

By Catholic News Agency CORPUS Christi Sunday, also known as the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of...

By Terry Lees THERE was a man who reached a stage of his life when he felt self-sufficient and capable....

By Fr John Flader Question - I remember someone saying that the souls of the good people who died before...

STREET battles erupted again in the heavily contested city of Sievierodonetsk on day 97 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine....

HOLINESS is possible, and the Catholic Church provides the tools for attaining it. That was the theme of an address...

SAINT Kateri Tekakwitha was united with the suffering of Christ from an early age. She was born to a Mohawk...

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...