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Time magazine has called Pope Francis a septuagenarian superstar and the People's ...
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Charles defends Mid-East Christians, Paul VI miracle, Belgian euthanasia, Indian PM apology, ...
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New church for Hunter, Cardinal Pell at Reconciliation Church, Burleigh Waters church, ACU, ...
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An interview with Newcastle parishioner Clare Howlett about raising a modern family in the ...
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Peter Seamus O'Toole was born to an Irish Catholic family in 1932 and shot to fame as Lawrence ...
View ArticleSr Wendy on the art of Christmas, Mary and the Saints
Art opens doors that argument, logic, preaching and speculation cannot: Sr Wendy Beckett, an art ...
View ArticleSister muse: the artist, the nun and the Riviera chapel
Henri Matisse was an atheist... or so everybody thought. In his old age he employed a beautiful ...
View ArticleBethlehem now
Bethlehem: 'The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee.' Bishop Pat Power offers this ...
View ArticleDo not be afraid...
Gospel: Mt 1:18-24.This is how Jesus Christ came to be born. His mother Mary was betrothed ...
View ArticleIgnatian or Franciscan? The heart of Pope Francis
The key to understanding Pope Francis, writes Dr Christopher Bellitto, is to first consider not ...
View ArticleThe New Yorker profiles 'radical' Pope Francis
Pope Francis has captured the attention of the secular media as few other Catholic figures have. ...
View ArticleCardinal O'Brien, KGB smear, Irish Embassy, JPII diaries
Call to forgive Cardinal O'Brien, Pope's plea for Christian and Muslim refugees, KGB smeared ...
View ArticleMoney for couples, Fr Bob, Perc McGuigan, coward punch
Govt to give money for marriage counseling, Catholic schools to cost in SA, out with Fr Bob, vale ...
View ArticleTrappist 'bottles of the best' now made in USA
St Joseph's Abbey, near Boston, Massachusetts has long sold jams and jellies. Now it has become ...
View Article'Dungeon, fire and sword': Global persecution of Christians
Journalist John Allen has compiled a detailed catalogue of current persecutions of Christians - ...
View ArticleSydney man dies a hero's death in Sudan
Sydney father John Mac Acuek was one of the first Sudanese refugees to reach Australia, and the ...
View ArticleThe transformative power of heavenly music
St Paul's Choir School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the only boys' choir school in ...
View ArticleThe Church, the poor - and a woman’s place
How might Pope Francis' 'Church for the Poor' have meaning for the place of women in the world ...
View ArticleI will make you fishers of men
Matthew 4: 12-23 (NRSV version): 'As he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two ...
View ArticleLive nun talking: Sr Helen Prejean on death penalty progress
Sister Helen Prejean inspired the Hollywood film Dead Man Walking. Here,she gives a ...
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