Saving the Jesuits: 200 years since restoration
The Jesuits owe much to Pope Pius VII, who, on August 7, 1814, restored the Society of ...
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Buddhist radicals say Pope not welcome, Hollywood veteran talks about faith, Melanesians ...
View ArticleCatholics in asylum revolution, Adelaide to host youth
Adelaide to host second Australian Catholic Youth Festival, Children in detention, digger's ...
View ArticleAbandon hope all ye who dislike Dante
If you've ever had a devil of a time attempting to make head or tail of the works of the Italian ...
View ArticleMission improbable: from accountant to PNG preacher
The exotic appeal of mission work has a timeless attraction for many. But when Jesus Youth ...
View ArticleThe blind leading the blind
Matthew 15:10-28: There are a number of lessons from today’s reading. The first is that ...
View ArticleTributes for Cardinal Clancy overflow
Cardinal Edward Clancy's life as a priest spanned 64 years of unimaginable change in the Church ...
View ArticleWhy ISIS wants to destroy the holy places of Iraq
The festering Syrian civil war has resulted in ISIS spilling into Iraq. Mosul, the Biblical city ...
View ArticleThe Pope of surprises flies East
It a quarter of a century since a Pope visited the Korean peninsula. Pope Francis' five-day visit ...
View ArticleThe Feast of the Assumption
August 15 is the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Because it signifies the ...
View ArticleGod amid the noise and haste
Modern life is a tale of constant distractions, but our preoccupation with the ordinary business ...
View ArticleMarvellous marbles of early Christian tombs
A visit to the Museum Paleocristiano of the Vatican Museums includes a collection of marble ...
View ArticleSome children freed from detention, Manus arrests
George Brandis on religious liberty, 102-year-old refugee safe in Sydney, TAS concert against ...
View ArticleGrand Mufti calls IS the enemy of Islam, Pope warns of Evil One
Ecological encyclical nearly ready, Vatican Cricket Club set to take on Church of England, ...
View ArticlePost-war piety: Evolution in a time of turbulence
Vatican II made some great changes in the Church, but one of the casualties according to ...
View ArticlePeter Sculthorpe, inspired communicator
Australia's leading comtemporary composer, whose most substantial work is considered ...
View ArticleSt Alberto Hurtado SJ - a musical meditation
"To be an apostle does not mean to carry a torch, to possess the light, but to be the light". ...
View Article'Who do you say that I am?'
Matthew 16:13-20: Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his ...
View ArticleCaritas begins at home
As Caritas Australia celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, watch the story of its aid and ...
View ArticleThe elephant in the synagogue
The Old Testament contains many tales of wonder, but on the existence of elephants it is quite ...
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