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Prelate fronts WA inquiry

Marilyn Rodrigues - August 6, 2020

Belling the cat of Big Porn

Pope calls for prayers for Lebanon

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

Local Maronites will rally to help Beirut, says Bishop

David Ryan - August 5, 2020

Urgent Call for Volunteers: Jesuit Refugee Service

David Ryan - August 5, 2020

Beirut explosion adds to country’s suffering

August 5, 2020

Mask up in church advice for NSW

August 3, 2020

Simcha Fisher: The grotto behind the church

August 2, 2020

First Cow Review: Cow rides a slow boat bound for milking

August 1, 2020

Take up your vocation, Bishop urges men

July 31, 2020

Mass burials in Nigeria as violence escalates

July 31, 2020

Archbishop slams NSW Government on anti-slavery failure

July 30, 2020

‘Protect the kids!’: Latham launches NSW schools Bill

July 30, 2020

OPINION

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”

Fr. John Flader

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

Fr John Flader - July 31, 2020

In the Gospel of a recent weekday Mass Jesus said he had come not to bring peace but a sword, and to set parents...

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

George Weigel: Time to revise Vatican policy

July 25, 2020

FAITH

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

Arts & Entertainment

[email protected] with The Chosen star Jonathan Roumie

Marilyn Rodrigues - July 14, 2020

Philippa Martyr: Cleaning the Church starts with you

Dr Philippa Martyr - July 8, 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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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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