Tag: Blessed Sacrament
What is a plenary indulgence?
By God's grace, participation in a prayer or action that has an indulgence attached to it brings about the necessary restoration and reparation without the suffering that would normally accompany it.
Drawing on their faith: students win Walk With Christ awards
On Monday 2 December Sydney Bishop Richard Umbers presented awards to the two winners of the inaugural Walk with Christ Banner Competition.
The entries were...
Sydney goes from rowdy to reverent
About 6000 Sydney Catholics from every background and every age knelt in silent prayer.
Anna Krohn: The age of unbelief
Way back in what we imagine were the catechetically intact 1950s, the brilliant and irrepressible Catholic writer and Southerner, (Mary) Flannery O’Connor, was listening...
Simcha Fisher: A fake baptism and the real presence
Effects of an invalid Baptism
The other week, Catholic Twitter was in a tizzy over the story of an unfortunate priest who discovered, fifteen years...
Catholics take faith to Sydney’s streets on Corpus Christi
Professing His real presence in public procession
About 800 Catholics from three rites – Maronite, Melkite and Roman—took their faith to the streets of western...
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Peak health group rejects dying bill
Catholic providers in Tasmania will resist proposed law
Catholic Health Australia has strongly rejected Tasmania's proposed euthanasia legislation and says its members in the state...
