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Chemically-Induced Sedation for COVID-19 in Aged Care – A Catastrophe

David Ryan - August 14, 2020

Michelle Monaghan stars as Judy Wood in the inspiring biopic on the immigration lawyer’s fight to protect persecuted women. Photo: Erica Parise/ Saint Judy Productions, LLC

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Pope Francis has summoned what we see as ordinary parishes to be burning, faithful centres of evangelisation. PHOTO: CNS

Fr Josh Miechels: Bringing parishes alive

Relief for fire and flood victims flow

Maronite Bishop Antoine-Charbel Tarabay led a memorial Mass last Saturday for the victims of the explosion in the Port of Beirut on 4 August. Photo: Patrick J Lee

Sydney’s Maronites grieve after another Lebanese tragedy

Covid means fewer tourists for Rome’s Vatican Museums, but an alternative is available. Photo: CNS, Paul Haring

Vatican history and art all now online

Junno Arocho Esteves - August 13, 2020

Catholic Hospitals urge retailers to stop selling N95 masks

David Ryan - August 12, 2020

Understanding teen boys’ anger

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Is this Australia’s best primary principal?

August 12, 2020

Vaping: Sorting out ‘fact from fiction’ for those parents struggling with the issue

August 12, 2020

Supporting a child who’s being bullied

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Kindy kids turn 100

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The Gift of Goodness

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Glitterbugs in the spotlight

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Learning to forgive

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OPINION

The single biggest numerical loss of practising Catholics is likely to have been caused by the Boomers’ parents dying – they were big churchgoers. Photo: CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn

Philippa Martyr: Plenary should scrutinise the data

Philippa Martyr - August 13, 2020

I was absolutely delighted to see that Dr Trudy Dantis, the Director of the National Centre for Pastoral Research (NCPR), is helping to write...

If a acquired the language comparatively late, a person often finds that they have to spend longer thinking about how to phrase certain statements. This is true for converts.

Michael Daniel: Learning to speak Catholic with an accent

Michael Daniel - August 5, 2020

there is still the tendency for me to default into using phrases of common prayers from The Book of Common Prayer (1662), such as “the quick and the dead” instead of “the living and the dead”

Q&A with Fr John Flader: A God of peace and division

July 31, 2020

Innocence receding: Greens MLC David Shoebridge wants catechists out and gender ideology in public schools. Photo: pikrepo.com

Monica Doumit: Suffer the little children

July 30, 2020

Philippa Martyr: The Church is a ‘She’ – not an ‘it’

July 29, 2020

Simcha Fisher: Not like one of these

July 27, 2020

FAITH

Archdiocese News

Sydney parish responds to hate-crime with love

David Ryan - August 7, 2020

Mothers say faith has kept them going

Marilyn Rodrigues - July 22, 2020

St Mary Magdalene and St James the Greater Quiz

Benjamin Conolly - July 21, 2020

Moment of grace for Brother Steve Drum

Marilyn Rodrigues - July 20, 2020

Fr. John Flader

Fr John Flader: Saint Lydwine of Schiedam

Fr John Flader - July 17, 2020

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[email protected] with The Chosen star Jonathan Roumie

Marilyn Rodrigues - July 14, 2020

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COMMENT: MONICA DOUMIT

Jehovah’s Witnesses wait to offer passers-by promotional literature outside the British Museum. Photo: Philafrenzy/Wikimedia Commons, CC

Monica Doumit: Coverage varies on abuse – but why?

Monica Doumit - July 24, 2020

A number of years ago, Fairfax journalist Jonathan Holmes defended the sustained criticism on the Church and other institutions that had perpetrated and covered...

Nurses provide care to a patient in palliative care. Photo: CNS photo/Philippe Wojazer, Reuter

Monica Doumit: The love that’s just too much trouble

July 9, 2020

Monica Doumit: JK Rowling pile-on is a distraction

June 19, 2020

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Plenary 2020

Archdiocese News

Plenary ‘map’ is well in hand, says President

Staff Writers - July 31, 2020

A collection of biblical manuscripts. Photo: CNS photo/courtesy Museum of the Bible

Peter McGregor: Comments on The Plenary Council Paper

Peter McGregor - July 11, 2020

Precisely which Church? A response to the Plenary Discernment papers

Philippa Martyr - June 7, 2020

Fr Josh Miechels: good ideas and a few howlers in Plenary papers

Fr Josh Miechels - June 6, 2020

COMMENT: SIMCHA FISHER

Simcha Fisher: Who will help?

Simcha Fisher - July 15, 2020

I was already running late. I had picked up all the kids from their various schools and activities, and everyone was packed into the...

Simcha Fisher: In defence of communion rails

Simcha Fisher - July 8, 2020

Stay with me here, there's something to be said for them I was talking to a fellow who works as a missioner with the Maryknolls...

The Blessed Sacrament was processed from St Jerome's, Punchbowl, to St Charbel’s where there was Benediction and a Maronite Mass in English. Photo: Giovanni Portelli

Simcha Fisher: What I learned on Corpus Christi

Simcha Fisher - June 27, 2020

The first Sunday we went back to Mass was the feast of Corpus Christi. I was delighted to realise we could mark this feast,...

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