Prayer summit: God of Abraham, teach us peace!
In a prayer conference last Sunday, Pope Francis called on the Israeli and Palestinian leaders to ...
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Pope's boyhood home now historic site,Slovakia puts marriage in constitution; Communion for ...
View ArticlePyne brings back Latin, World Refugee Day.
Archbishop Coleridge on Corpus Christi; 99-year-old asylum seeker; Bishop Bill sleeps out; NSW ...
View ArticleRutilio Grande: Oscar Romero's John the Baptist?
Just ten days after Oscar Romero became Archbishop of San Salvador in 1977, Fr Rutilio ...
View ArticleSoulful philosopher kept the faith
Max Charlesworth, a leading Australian philosopher and ethicist, has died at the age of ...
View ArticleGiving the poor for love what the rich get for money
The contributions of the Sisters of Charity to health care in Australia are formidable. Madonna ...
View Article'I am the living bread'
The Gospel of the week comes from John 6: 51 - 58.John is still exploring the truth ...
View ArticleSculpting saints from Christianity's creative soup
Timothy Schmalz is a modern sculptor, whose striking religious bronzes in public places have ...
View ArticleThe Church of Mercy by Pope Francis
An excerpt from The Church of Mercy, the first Vatican-authorised book detailing the vision of ...
View ArticleHow theology saves science from meaninglessness
Many are unaware of the vast body of subtle theological reflection on the nature of creation ...
View ArticleCatholics and Anglicans: What more can we do?
This week Pope Francis referred to the division between Catholics and Anglicans as nothing less ...
View ArticlePriest charged with soliciting sexual favours from refugees
Meriam freed (again) in Sudan, NZ boy takes Catholic school to High Court over haircut, 7 worst ...
View ArticleSr Susan Connelly's Moral Compass, how to defy tyranny
Gay anger at Catholic rally, Justice Heyden on the Christians who defied Hitler, 175 years for ...
View ArticleThe seamstress's daughter who saved thousands
Stephanie Kwolek was the chemist who developed the polymer fibre Kevlar, used in bulletproof ...
View ArticleNot mutually exclusive: God and empirical science
The author of Fermat's Last Theorem takes on the 'New Atheists' in his latest book which explains ...
View ArticleWoman and the Francis Effect
Sr Monica Cavanagh, Congregational leader of St Mary MacKillop's Josephite Sisters, reflects on ...
View Article'Who do you say that I am'
The Gospel for this Sunday comes from Matthew 16:13-19. In it, Jesus asks his followers how ...
View ArticleSr Helen Prejean: Pope Francis and other people I admire
Today and throughout July, CathNews will present a series of reflections from Sr Helen ...
View ArticleThe Mowbray family values
The name of the National Disability Insurance Scheme sounds a little cold and beaureacratic. But ...
View Article'Sainthood ho!' for the Fastest Nun in the West?
The outlaw Billy the Kid knew when he had met his match. Realising that he'd bailed up the wagon ...
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