Tag: Catholic

Conversation about religious freedom will continue Politicians and the media have become accustomed during the religious freedom debate to the term “Australians of faith”. It’s...

Growing up, Milad Khalil had a healthy respect for faith but didn’t connect with it deeply until one winter’s night in 2008.

Parish stands out with innovative musical scholarships World-famous for its swimmers, the popular beachside suburb of Bondi now wants to be put on the map...

God has such a sense of humour: the Glendalough parish church was semi-raided by a zealous police officer on the feast of St Blaise. My first thought was that, as St Blaise is the patron of sore throats, this was entirely appropriate. But a friend pointed out that St Blaise – a doctor as well […]

Dear Father, I have a friend who suggests reciting the hymn of the three young men for thanksgiving after Mass. I hadn’t heard of it before but am now saying it and I find it helpful. What is the background to this prayer?

I heard a sad story recently. A lovely young family lost some long-time friends, another married couple and kids, who started to attend a different Mass. Simply going to a different parish church doesn’t usually bust up a friendship like that. All that happened was that the friends began attending the traditional Latin Mass (TLM).

We were at Mass. Christmas Mass, in fact; and I felt, as I always do, that we had arrived unprepared. If I only had one...

When St. Francis started having visions, he made an honest mistake. Jesus told him to rebuild his church, so St. Francis, with a willing heart, set to work rebuilding the literal, physical church right in front of him. Block by block, he put the chapel of San Damiano back together. But of course Christ had […]

Image credit: The Holy Family with a Little Bird – Bartolomé Esteban Murillo c.1650 One hundred years ago today, Pope Benedict XV instituted the Feast of the Holy Family and proclaimed that it be celebrated annually on the first Sunday during the Christmas Octave. Although it is most fitting that it be celebrated at this […]

I looked at the date and gasped out loud. How can it possibly be this late already, with so much left undone? Every single...

Bishop of Broken Bay Anthony Randazzo has urged the country’s leaders to take a compassionate approach to people who seek asylum.

Newly ordained deacons come from diverse backgrounds Six men from the Archdiocese of Sydney’s Seminary of the Good Shepherd have been made deacons in a bumper season of ordinations for the church. Deacons Mark Anderson, Benjamin Saliba, Adrian Simmons and Benjamin Gandy were ordained in recent weeks for the Archdiocese of Sydney, Eden Langlands for […]