Tag: Catholicism
Anthony Cleary: Dialogue – in a Christ-centred environment
Over time, most organisations find a need to reflect upon their core business and people’s understanding of and commitment to it.
No group is immune...
Last train out of Sydney…how I found the Catholic faith
'Turn on, tune-in and drop out' they said in the 60s.
James Orrock tried that - but still found himself searching
A long, long time ago...
Q@A with Fr John Flader: Who are Christadelphians?
I have a work colleague who is a Christadelphian and, frankly, I had never heard of this religious community until now. What is their...
Paul Catalanotto: ‘Traditional’ Catholics
Beware the false 'traditional' vs 'non-traditional' divide
People who call themselves "traditional Catholics" are on equal footing in my mind with those people who say...
George Weigel: It’s been a good year
Let's celebrate some of our great people and events
There is no need to belabour the awfulness of the year of lockdowns, shutdowns, and other...
Mark Shea: What is a heresy?
The first of three-part series on heresy
Modernity has been conditioned to think of orthodoxy as a stiff and stodgy thing, closed to new ideas...
Monica Doumit: I applaud US bishops on Biden statement
Controversial welcome was entirely appropriate
Well, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) was in a bit of a flurry last week, wasn’t it?
For those...
Philippa Martyr: Downton Abbey Catholicism
A Church for the modern person
Having read the Australian Catholic Mass Attendance Report 2016, I think we can safely say that the experiment has...
Michael Daniel: Learning to speak Catholic with an accent
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”
We need the Mass even more
A week ago, my friend and colleague Peter Holmes published an article ‘Missing Mass? Don’t complain…’ Its focus is not so much on those...
Q&A with Fr John Flader: Excommunication possible
“Dear Father, I am disturbed by the fact that some Catholic politicians have voted for the legalisation of abortion in this country. For me,...
Bishop Barron and Dr Peterson’s meeting of minds
US bishop and popular author Bishop Robert Barron has spoken of a “huge pastoral failure” by the Church during a highly anticipated discussion with...
