Perspectives
Many of us pursue physical health and weight loss to the point of obsession, yet we can’t make the time to look after our spiritual health. [Read more...]
14 Nov 2013
I have always thought that it is not easy to go straight to heaven when we die but, based on the Summa Theologica of St Thomas Aquinas, that the Anointing of the Sick removes all o[Read more...]
14 Nov 2013
After she began attending Whitford parish, personal difficulties struck and yet Alison Hodson says it was then God spoke to her in a new way.[Read more...]
07 Nov 2013
Western notions of freedom are bound up with being in control but true joy is not for the grasping, writes Mark Reidy.[Read more...]
07 Nov 2013
I have been fascinated by your account of the Eucharistic miracles of Buenos Aires and Poland. What is the connection between these and the miracle of Lanciano in Italy? [Read more...]
07 Nov 2013
At a conference in Rome last year, the BBC’s veteran Vatican correspondent David Willey asked a question which has surely crossed the minds of many secular as well as religious jou[Read more...]
31 Oct 2013
From rolling down US streets blaring Santana to life in Perth, God has been so good, Friar Gabriel tells Debbie Warrier.[Read more...]
31 Oct 2013
“Seven children, that’s a brave number,” the doctor said. How did living an ordinary Catholic life get to be so heroic?[Read more...]
31 Oct 2013
Recently, in a discussion with some friends, one of them said the idea of the natural law was an invention of mediaeval Catholic theologians. Is this true? [Read more...]
31 Oct 2013
Megan Walter was raised in the Pentecostal Church but became Catholic earlier this year, largley due to the inspiration of a special Catholic friend.[Read more...]
18 Oct 2013
He struggled through life, hurt by the world, yet he somehow managed to bring compassion and mercy to others.[Read more...]
18 Oct 2013
Even when the so-called experts tell you to “take it easy”, don’t waste time worrying, just leave it all in God’s hands. [Read more...]
18 Oct 2013
We have recently tried to reintroduce the family Rosary but my sons, aged 11 and 13, say they find it boring. I have not been able to convince them otherwise. Can you help me?[Read more...]
17 Oct 2013
Nothing could have better illustrated in Australia Pope Francis’ call for Catholics and Christians to focus their energy more on the new evangelisation than last week’s comments by[Read more...]
25 Sep 2013
Paradoxically, the line between great ability and disability - as we think of them - can be very fine. Both can come together...[Read more...]
25 Sep 2013
Acknowledging the fundamental differences between masculinity and femininity is not to imply inferiority or superiority...[Read more...]
25 Sep 2013
The singer thought she was, like, totally making history by being deliberately obscene. Sadly, she’s likely headed for its dustbin...[Read more...]
19 Sep 2013
It is easier to be Catholic in Dubai than it is in an increasingly materialist Australia, Christine dos Santos tells Debbie Warrier. She is doing her bit at Santa Clara, Bentley, t[Read more...]
19 Sep 2013
In my Bible, in Chapter 19 of St Matthew’s Gospel, it says that whoever divorces his wife, except in the case of adultery, and marries another, commits adultery. Does this mean tha[Read more...]
19 Sep 2013
Last weekend millions of people all over the world – Catholic, non-Catholic, agnostic or non-religious – joined Pope Francis’s call for prayer, fasting and penance for peace in Syr[Read more...]
11 Sep 2013