WELCOME to the strange world of US politics – and especially so for Catholic voters – as we head towards a presidential election in November. In President Donald Trump, Americans have a leader seeking re-election who was once pro-choice and has transformed into an anti-abortion warrior. And in Democratic candidate Joe Biden, voters see a contender who calls himself a ... Read More »
A SMALL religious order known for “evangelising on the streets of the world” hopes to send a mission to Australia after COVID-19 subsides. The Little Friars and Little Nuns of Jesus and Mary is an order with only 34 members, but the significance of the mission was revealed after one of its priests prayed and receiving a sign to come. ... Read More »
PERSONAL and systemic racism was a “kind of original sin in our country”, Bishop Robert Barron said days after the murder of George Floyd during a homily at St Louis de Montfort Church, Santa Maria US. “The whole country’s acknowledging it, we do see this presence of personal and indeed systemic racism,” he said. Riots and civil unrest had intensified ... Read More »
SIGNS reading “Choose Life” flagged a crowd of tens of thousands, formed from an international backdrop of religions and creeds, young and old, and united at the March for Life 2020 in Washington DC on January 24. Sydney Auxiliary Bishop Richard Umbers was among the demonstrators flooding the National Mall and said he saw “huge numbers” turning out in favour ... Read More »
MOSUL’S leader of Syriac Catholics has asked “the big powers” in the United States and Iran to let the Iraqi people live in dignity, as tensions escalate over the combating countries. Archbishop Youhanna Boutros Moshe is leader of the Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul, in northern Iraq, located about 90km from the Erbil US military base that was struck by ... Read More »
ESCALATING tensions between Iran and the United States have led to a missile bombardment across the Iraqi border, striking two US airbases at Al Asad and Erbil. It is as yet unknown if there have been any casualties. Iranian state television confirmed the launch of “tens” of surface-to-surface missiles and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed responsibility for the attack ... Read More »
FR Modestus Mgbaramuko, arriving from Nigeria to his first posting as a parish priest in Australia, was like the shepherd searching for the lost sheep. He was relentless and would not give up. Fr Modestus smiles broadly now as he recalls the many who responded and returned to the fold at the northern Brisbane bayside parish of Sandgate-Brighton. After six-and-a-half ... Read More »
IT seems at the moment that there is a constant narrative in the news about building walls and dividing nations. For months we’ve heard United States President Donald Trump talking endlessly about his wall between the US and Mexico. With the Brexit debate there is talk of reintroducing borders in parts of Ireland. Added to this, since 2001 walls have ... Read More »
AS Hurricane Irma carved a path of devastation through the Caribbean, one Brisbane priest was keeping a close vigil. Newly-appointed St Stephen’s Cathedral dean Fr Peter Brannelly, spent more than a decade – from 1995 until 2006- as pastor of the islands of Tortola, Virgin Gorda and the people of the British Virgin Islands. As Irma swept across the region, ... Read More »
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