10 ways to help revitalise the Church
Reform is afoot in the Vatican. Pope Francis has tightened the reins on the Vatican bank, worked ...
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The Thai Prme Minister has an audience with Pope Francis, the UK governmnt is urged to ...
View ArticleNurses inspire scholarship, mining execs listen to Pope
St Vincents nurses inspire a scholarship in honour of a departed colleague, Korean Buddhist monks ...
View ArticleChildren of a revolution
An oppressive Iranian regime destroys families. Decades later, the deep wounds are yet to be ...
View ArticleA voice for the marginalised, the unborn, the silenced
The Rev F Joseph Gossman once began a homily about the sanctity of human life by quoting the ...
View ArticleOutback challenge for confirmed city dweller
For a self-confessed extrovert who has lived in the city for 40 years, it can be challenging to ...
View ArticleMsgr John Kozar: Catholic Near East Welfare Association
Since its founding in 1926, the need for theCatholic Near East Welfare Associationhas ...
View ArticleThere was a rich man and he had a steward
Luke 16:1-13Jesus said to his disciples: "There was a rich man and he had a steward who was ...
View ArticleFinding beauty among evil
Meeting Claudio Pastro, the renowned Brazilian artist and architect, during my recent visit to ...
View ArticleThe sacramentality of adoption
I have often considered how remarkable it is that something as ordinary as marriage could become ...
View Article80 years of grace, guts and luck for Catholic Workers
This year we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Catholic Worker movement. In ...
View ArticleDolan on religious liberty, Parolin to start in new job
Cardinal Turkson addresses the World Food Prize, Cardinal Dolan urges Amercian bishops to defend ...
View ArticleBrisbane Filipino anxiety, Vinnies' history of helping
Brisbane's Filipino community clings to hope, Vinnies' long history of helping refugees and ...
View ArticleThe great Jesuit teacher, Costello SJ
The Rev Fr Emmet Patrick Costello SJ died peacefully in Sydney last month. After 71 years of ...
View ArticleThe Devil made them do it! No, really….
Challenging the cliche that possession signals physical or mental illness, Brian Levack argues ...
View ArticleWitness to Syrian devastation
Melville Fernandez, Caritas Australia's Group Leader of Humanitarian Emergencies has spent the ...
View ArticleThree professional women reflect on the role of faith
America asked three professional women about the role of faith in their busy lives. {split ...
View ArticleHandling resentment in our lives
I pass along one of the insights of the renowned anthropologist Rene Girard who studied how we ...
View ArticleAll these things you are staring at now...
Luke 21:5-19When some were talking about the Temple, remarking how it was adorned with fine ...
View ArticleA President for peace
The day President Kennedy was murdered, a Divine Word seminarian walked to our apartment in Rome ...
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