Tag: Catechism of the Catholic Church
Australia worth celebrating, leading Catholics say
Though the culture war on Australia Day rages, Catholics are told by the Catechism of the Catholic Church that patriotism is a virtue.
“Lord: Do you mean me? A father-catechist!”
My parents found it very difficult to pray with us and, in the end, abandoned it; however, they still prayed for their seven children and, I am certain, returning to the Catholic Faith at forty was a direct result of their prayers and the prayers of many other people.
Simcha Fisher: Just do it. Begin again
When I used to teach catechism, with a loud and hopping little class of eight- and nine-year-olds, most of them were more or less...
Q&A with Fr Flader: Biden and the Eucharist
Dear Father, President Joe Biden of the US, who is a Catholic, has expressed publicly his support for abortion rights, yet he continues to...
Q&A with Fr John Flader: Dignity the key in handling death
When my grandmother was dying, our family was confused about the morality of giving or withholding certain treatments suggested by the doctors. Does the...
Monica Doumit: Suffer the little children
Well, it wouldn’t be a new school semester if the Greens didn’t again try to push Special Religious Education (SRE) out of public schools.
Greens...
Dr Jeremy Bell: Are we really pacifists?
Last week in Terre Haute prison, IndiaCatechismna, three men were given lethal injections. Convicted murderers Daniel Lewis Lee, Wesley Ira Purkey and Dustin Lee...
Jeremy Bell: Is environmental sin possible?
Pope Francis recently mooted the idea of adding to the Catechism the “sin against ecology” or the “ecological sin”. The ecological sin would be...
Catechesis: why the Plenary needs to embrace it
Why Plenary 2020 needs to make catechesis a priority
Q&A with Fr John Flader: Changing the Lord’s Prayer?
“In the past few weeks several friends have told me that the Pope has changed the wording of the Our Father. Is this true...
