3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1025+ words) In our own time, not only in Australia but across the West, we see growing division, distrust, and distress among peoples. Outbreaks of violence in London and Belfast following the death of Henry Nowak in 2025 are only two visible signs…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (602+ words) In our Maronite liturgical calendar we find ourselves in the 15th week of the Season of Pentecost, the longest of our liturgical seasons. In our daily Mass readings we recently read through the book of the Acts of the Apostles, hearing…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (766+ words) By Emeritus Professor Michael Quinlan, The University of Notre Dame Australia I attended the Alliance For Responsible Citizenship (ARC) Conference in London in June this year. It was the largest conference yet, attracting about 4,000 attendees. For those not familiar with…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (259+ words) One of Australia’s oldest Catholic international development agencies is challenging Catholics to simplify their lives this September while raising funds for volunteers serving communities across the Asia-Pacific. Executive Director Soraya Kassim said the campaign invited Catholics to examine unnecessary complexity…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (749+ words) By Ruadhán Jones, OSV News Baptisms in the Catholic Church in Ireland have fallen by almost a third since 2015, with just one Irish diocese seeing any positive change, a new report shows. While around 60 per cent of the 30 per cent…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (367+ words) Dozens of clergy from the Archdiocese of Bogotá embarked on a five-day pastoral mission to cities in Colombia devastated by the 10 August earthquake. According to the archdiocese, a group of 80 priests and deacons, led by Cardinal Luis José Rueda Aparicio…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (734+ words) He leads one of the most closely watched local churches in the English-speaking world. Archbishop John Wilson has been Archbishop of Southwark, south London and Kent, since 2019, and before that spent seven years as Episcopal Vicar for Evangelisation in Leeds....

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (398+ words) This is the edited text for the homily for Friday Mass on the 15th Week in Ordinary Time (Year 2) at the Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia Retreat, Motherhouse Nashville Tennessee, 17 July, 2026. “Put your affairs in order and get ready to die,…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (613+ words) It hosts some excellent Catholic opinion writers who share their work for free or for a modest fee. I recently read an article called ‘We Must Build: recovering Catholic geography’ by Andrew Warfield. It’s about the demographic collapse of the…...