Tag: Church

Celibacy - freely embraced - helps create really good, fatherly and even emotionally available men When was the last time you prayed for priests, or...

The Good Charities Guide 'The Good Charities Guide' is for readers located across Sydney, NSW and interstate who are looking to support a suitable charity....

The Church is either human and democratic or like the Blues Brothers – on a mission from God My last piece on women deacons caused...

It is not sufficient for us to confine our Christian life to the pews of the parish Church and a scattering of prayers in the home, without commitment to the issues of our time and the presenting challenges of the world

Not only does the Spirit make the Church one, it also leads the Church to be faithful, in ever deeper adherence to Christ.

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...

this cataclysm has removed from our path artificial obstacles to new endeavours and underscored the part each of us can play as the baptised in the rebuilding of the new world that awaits

Spiritual communions, perfect acts of contrition, and Mass on TV are not what the Lord intended for us. He intended real things: breath and bodies; oil and wine in our wounds; flesh and blood for us to eat; water and fire to purify

Australian youth want holiness ffrom the Church. On this issue, the Plenary needs to deliver.

What does Easter mean for you?  For many, in an increasingly materialistic and pleasure driven society it’s all about hot cross buns, chocolate Easter...