Walk with Christ 2018 coincides with 200 years of the Blessed Sacrament
This year the annual Walk with Christ Eucharistic Procession through the streets of Sydney’s CBD will coincide with the 200th anniversary of Eucharistic Adoration in Australia. Set to take place on […]
Where Love and Respect fill the Gaps
Tom lives alone. His only companion his severe mental illness. The walls in his Darlinghurst flat are covered in mould and the stench of cigarettes, urine and sheer filth slaps you […]
Oz Rosary prayed from coast to coast
From rainy, cold Sydney to bright and sunny Brisbane, Aussies turned out on the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima—13 May—to pray the Rosary for their country. At over 250 locations […]
“Education funding is illogical,” says head of Catholic Schools NSW
The Turnbull Government’s new funding model for non-government schools is illogical and unfair, producing “some bizarre conclusions” according to Dallas McInerney (pictured below), Chief Executive of Catholic Schools NSW. The Catholic […]
St Mary’s Cathedral College choir sing for Pope Francis
St Mary’s Cathedral College boys mark 200 year celebration of Australia’s oldest choir with European tour Few 12-year-olds can say they have had a dream come true at such a young […]
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200 years of the Blessed Sacrament celebrated at the “birthplace” of the Church in Australia
Hundreds of people, including bishops from all around the country, filled Sydney’s beloved St Patrick’s Church Hill on Sunday 6 ...
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“Saving them both”: Sky-high stakes in the Irish Referendum
During this last week in Ireland, the highly charged and internationally supported “Yes” Referendum campaign, stepped into overd...
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Third century saint invoked as tunnelling begins for Sydney Metro Railway
St Barbara – patron saint of miners and tunnellers – was invoked in the blessing of a massive roadheader machine which w...
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Archbishop Coleridge elected president of ACBC
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has today elected Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane as president of the Conference. A...
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Monica Doumit: A contract worker fired for expressing her personal belief? That’s scary stuff
Around a million Australians are contract workers and another 2.3 million or so are casual employees. Amongst them, they account f...
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Caritas slams budget cuts to foreign aid
The recent Federal Budget plunged Australia further into its “most insular period of international engagement in 60 years̶...
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Cardinal Pell’s legal team will accept public donations
Cardinal George Pell will face separate trials in his fight against historical sexual assault charges. The Cardinal, who has pleaded...
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Question Time 4 has all the answers
From ghosts to gay weddings, Easter eggs to the death penalty, sacraments to scapulars, there’s hardly a topic relating to Cat...
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Sydney’s Catholics mourn terrorist victims
Sydney’s Indonesian Catholic community is in “deep sorrow” after terrorist attacks on three Indonesian churches on Mother’s ...
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Half a century on, the cultural impact of 1968 still felt
The year 1968 was a watershed moment of cultural change, during a decade which saw major social upheaval. It was the year that Pope...
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OSV: ‘Rosary priest’ gave it all for Mary
“The family that prays together stays together” has been an international Catholic catchphrase for more than 60 years, a truism that is instinctively self-evi... -
Crux: Conference highlights role of laity in addressing challenges
“Even before the (Second) Vatican Council, the conviction of the Church was that lay involvement in certain spheres of life, particularly political and social, was abso... -
Why not join a pilgrimage to the heart of the Church?
It has been said that after a trip to Rome you are never quite the same. For many Catholics here in Australia, travelling to the Eternal City can feel like visiting their... -
When Success Leads to Failure
I’ve known the mother sitting in front of me at this parent-teacher conference for years, and we have been through a lot together. I have taught three of her children, ...
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The Real Problem with the Vatican Nativity Scene
Far be it from me to join the Catholic prudes who are being negative about the Vatican nativity scene. People are grumbling about the naked man who is being clothed as an... -
Welcoming Stranger Things Without Baptising Them Too
In the past year, many writers in the Catholic blogosphere have commented on the theological richness of Stranger Things. One writer recently went so far as to claim tha... -
The Return to Ancient Traditions After the Death of God
The “traditionalists” among conservative Christians are surprised when we show them how relatively modern and extremely limited is the form of Christianity that they ... -
In Good Hands: Caryll Houselander and the Single Vocation
Caryll Houselander (1901‒1954) was a British Catholic writer and artist who lived during the first half of the twentieth century. She was also a mystic. As a single wom...
