Tag: Eucharist
Q&A with Fr John Flader: Non-Catholic communions
Dear Father, I saw the recent article in The Catholic Weekly saying that a German bishop is giving Holy Communion to Protestants who ask...
Pope Francis honours Sydney Catholics
First woman to study canon law among those to receive awards for service to the Church and society.
Philippa Martyr: Condensed milk liturgical music
We have a problem with the music in many churches
One of the funniest Catholic media pieces I’ve read recently was one from the US...
The Church ‘not a political party’
In latest catechesis, Pope Francis spoke powerfully on the church and rejected false synodality.
Philippa Martyr: The maleness of Jesus Christ
I’ve been reading a rather grim book lately called Clerical Sexual Misconduct, which was reviewed in The Catholic Weekly earlier this year.
But in the...
George Weigel: A new Sunday better normal
In his 2003 encyclical, Ecclesia de Eucharistia (The Church from the Eucharist), Pope St John Paul II invited Catholics to regain a sense of...
Peter McGregor: Prayerful and Eucharistic Plenary Council Paper
There is no doubt in my mind that this is the best of the six discernment papers
George Weigel: A crisis is also an opportunity
Thinking out loud about a return to “Sunday normal,” a veteran parish priest recently told me that he thought it would take one year...
Fr John Flader: Saint Lydwine of Schiedam
St Lydwine was a Dutch saint who was very sick, more sick than can be imagined
Simcha Fisher: In defence of communion rails
Stay with me here, there's something to be said for them
I was talking to a fellow who works as a missioner with the Maryknolls...
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Pope appeals for peace in Holy Land
The death of children in the conflict is "unacceptable"
The injury and death of so many innocent people, especially children, caused by escalating violence between...
