Picture if you will, a university course that offers the opportunity to study the politics of the Borgia family in Rome, or the musings of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio in Florence and the lives of the renaissance artists who left traces of their genius across Italy. Such a course is in itself an insight into the […]
Are you someone who feared learning mathematics, or are your school experiences of maths looked back upon fondly? Mathematics is often a very divisive subject where people are firmly based in the “I love” or “I hate” category. However, in schools across Australia and the world beyond the “I hate” category is starting to grow, […]
His face turned pale, then red. Then he grabbed a glass of water. At a recent event in Australia where this Iranian official was claiming his country wanted “mutual cooperation” with others, he found himself facing the one question he did not want to answer. “If Iran wants mutual cooperation, will it adopt a confidence […]
For 200 years, Catholic schools have been part of the fabric of Australian society. The commitment of the Catholic Church and the selfless work of generations of religious leaders, parents, teachers and principals has created a high-quality, non-government school choice that is accessible to nearly every Australian family. This is a major societal achievement and […]
A remarkable journey will reach a new stage on 15 July when Br Robert Krishna OP will be ordained a priest by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP at St Benedict’s, Broadway. Br Robert’s journey began in Bangalore, India. Originally a Hindu, he became an atheist at the age of 10, and in his late teens considered […]
It was almost a convoy that travelled from Sydney to Melbourne on 9 June to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Neocatechumenal Way in Australia. For the occasion, Archbishop Denis Hart welcomed Neocatechumenal communities and representatives from around the country in St Patrick’s Cathedral. The Neocatechumenal Way is one of the numerous new ways […]
On 29 June at 10.30am (local time) Victoria Police announced that they are filing “multiple charges in respect of historic sexual offences” against Cardinal George Pell. Pell is Pope Francis’ chief financial adviser, the previous head of the Catholic Church in Australia, and the highest-ranking Vatican official to ever be charged for sexual abuse. He’s also […]
Close to 500 students sang, danced and prayed at a Fr Rob Galea concert to mark six months until the Australian Catholic Youth Festival. Held at Patrician Brothers’ College, Fairfield on 16 June, the event drew a crowd from 11 other Sydney Catholic schools including nearby Mary Mac- Killop Catholic College, Wakeley and inner-west schools […]
On the night of 6 – 7 August 2014, Islamic State (IS) occupied the historic regions of the Nineveh Plains and emptied it of Christians, its original inhabitants. The Christians who fled sought refuge in the Kurdistan region of Northern Iraq. A large number of people however remained trapped there. Some of them were able to […]
Franciscan Father Ibrahim Alsabagh says that 15 families of the Latin rite Catholic community have already returned to the Syrian city of Aleppo and that many others are hoping to return, reports Josue Villalón. During a recent visit to the war-torn and widely devastated city of Aleppo in Syria, Franciscan Father Ibrahim Alsabagh, parish priest of the […]
Archbishop Michael Didi Adgum Mangoria has been in charge of the archdiocese of Khartoum since November 2016. The Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) recently visited Sudan. During the trip Archbishop Didi spoke with ACN’s Oliver Maksan about the situation of the Church in Sudan. Archbishop, you have been in office for […]
My research in the early 1970s on Catholics and politics in Australia led me to what remained of the Central Catholic Library in Melbourne, which had been established by the Irish-born Jesuit Fr William Hackett. The Central Catholic Library was frequented in the late 1920s and throughout the 1930s by the men – and they […]
