Mark Shea: Going to the dogs
Last time we focused on the contention that the story of Jesus and the Canaanite Woman could be legitimately read as Jesus learning from the Canaanite Woman as long as it […]
This is what a Sydney Catholic looks like
This is what an average Sydney Catholic looks like – a lot like Shelly Barnes. The Greystanes photographer, wife and mum of three adult sons matches recent data which reveals the […]
Simcha Fisher: Feeding time in the Father’s nest
Have you ever seen a nest of baby birds waiting to be fed? They open their beaks so wide, they become nothing but mouth. The frantic parents fly back and forth […]
Reject the false dichotomy in marriage debate, Archbishop tells Catholics
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP has issued a clarion call in the final days of the marriage plebiscite, saying that Catholics should continue to reject the false dichotomy between loving same-sex attracted […]
Priests get management skills for future flourishing
It looks like the days of priests being left to fend for themselves in organisational and parish settings, armed only with qualifications in philosophy and theology, may be numbered. Eight priests […]
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Marist girls to kick cancer to the curb
To celebrate becoming a new, fully co-educational 7-12 college since last year, Marist College Penshurst will demonstrate its girl p...
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Daniel Ang: The signs of the times for parish life
It is a truism that we cannot hope to grow by holding the door closed against reality. A renewed future always begins on the basis o...
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19,000+ Catholic school students start 2017 NSW HSC
A record 19,330 Catholic school students began their NSW Higher School Certificate on Monday. Catholic Schools NSW (CSNSW) – t...
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Schoenstatt gives parents a break
Many a young parent struggles with the challenges of raising a family but some Catholic parents are taking advantage of extra suppor...
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Bishop Kennedy: Thank God for our messy families
“No family drops down from heaven perfectly formed.” These words of Pope Francis remind us that our marriages and families don...
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US speaker Emily Wilson to tear the roof off at ACYF
If young people are looking to tap into something bigger than themselves and experience “unmatched joy”, they should sign up for...
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Bishop Elliott interview: A Church that is able to reform itself
The decades following the Reformation in Europe were some of the bloodiest in human history, but what are we to make of the ‘event...
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HSC student is just an (extra)ordinary young bloke
Tom Squire is one of the more than 19,000 NSW students who formally began their Higher School Certificate exams today. But the St Jo...
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Editorial: Euthanasia is the rupture we must not accept
Victoria may become the first state in Australia to make it legal to kill another person for medical reasons (and NSW has its own pr...
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Inside the ‘No’ campaign: ‘We will become dissidents in our own country’
Lyle Shelton is back on the road again. In fact, he’s been almost nowhere else for the last four months as he relentlessly criss-c...
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How to not betray Christ by going out of your mind with dread
We need not fear the secular world and the things happening in it. We don’t need to react to things as if they are signs of the end of the world. Everything is an oppor... -
Murdered Ulma family bringing Catholics and Jews together
Wiktoria and Józef Ulma and their six children were murdered for hiding Jews during World War II. A museum honouring their memory has become an important destination for... -
Theologian Stanley Hauerwas: ‘Trump wants you to be in his reality show’
American theologian and ethicist Professor Stanley Hauerwas has hit out at Donald Trump and offered a stark challenge to the contemporary Church. He said: “Trump ma... -
Catholic Church supports separate Gorkha homeland in India
Church leaders have expressed solidarity with ethnic Gorkha people who are on an indefinite strike protesting for a separate homeland in the Darjeeling area of eastern In...
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A feminist revisits childhood dreams of convent life in visit to religious
When I was 7 years old, my best friend Angèle and I decided that we wanted to be nuns. Huddled together at recess, we would spend hours mapping out our elaborate future ... -
Has the Catholic faith been over-intellectualised?
Since switching to the Traditional Latin Mass, I have seen that most of our modern catechetical methods are geared exclusively towards the intellect. For example, the ave... -
The 10 must see travel sites for a faith-filled Catholic
Travel is on our minds and in our blood! What better way to start planning than with a list of the top 10 Catholic sites to see? This list begins with a Church built atop... -
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...
