Simcha Fisher: What I learned from my mistakes as a writer
A friend recently asked me, “What was the best online criticism of your work that you ever read? Not something crazy or mean but something that caused you to think, ‘That […]
Mark Shea: Is technology morally neutral?
One common theme heard, especially in the gun-besotted United States, is the old saw, “Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.” Prescinding from the obvious reply–which the enlightened country of Australia […]
The silence of the exclusion zones will make women more vulnerable
Two years after she had an abortion, Jaya Taki still thinks about what might have been, had she received support to keep her baby. Just talking about it still moves her […]
Catholics honoured in Queen’s Birthday list for 2018
Catholics have once again featured prominently on the Queen’s Birthday Honours List this year. Awarded for their service to the community in a variety of fields from education, healthcare, outreach, and […]
Simcha Fisher: Learning to live as a baptised person
A friend asked, “You mentioned once that having kids brought you and your husband back to the Church. Can you elaborate what that was like?” I remember the exact moment it […]
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Huge 24-hour quarry will ‘shatter the peace at Penrose Park’
Time is running out to protest the construction of a large open-cut sand quarry with a boundary just metres from the sacred grotto a...
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Confessional seal and child safety “not mutually exclusive”
Australian Catholic Bishops Conference president Archbishop Mark Coleridge has welcomed the Federal Government’s response to the R...
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Archbishop Fisher offers encouragement to young pro-lifers
As a controversial bill about abortion clinic exclusion zones was being debated in the NSW Upper House this week Archbishop Anthony ...
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Trolled for defending life
A young Sydney woman has been viciously abused and threatened online for her pro-life activities after her appearance in a TV interv...
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Threat to the seal of confession
The Catholic Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn Christopher Prowse has expressed shock over the passage of a new child protection l...
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St Anthony’s prepares for a ‘precious’ gift in first-class relic of their favourite saint
The people of St Anthony of Padua, Toongabbie, feel “excited and very blessed” as they prepare to receive a precious gift from P...
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Cardinal Bo’s visit to Australia to be the first by a Burmese cardinal
Outspoken human rights advocate Cardinal Charles Maung Bo will be the first Burmese cardinal to visit Australia when he tours Sydney...
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Pope Francis’ ‘inspiring vision of freedom’: Slavery proofing the supply chains of the Catholic Church
The following is a speech by John McCarthy QC, Chair of the Sydney Archdiocesan Anti-Slavery Taskforce and Australian Ambassador to...
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Schooners, sport, and the Holy Spirit – it’s not just cricket
I love my cricket but the best things that happen in our team are off the field. I’ve played with the Papal Bulls cricket club as ...
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Opening up the lines of communication
In 2015, Pope Francis challenged Catholic parents to reclaim their roles as educators of their children. He said, “In our days th...
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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...
