Over 450 people attended CYM and Plast Camps over the Christmas holidays. There were three camps open this year. One Plast camp at Colo River, just outside of Sydney, where about 80 people attended. There was another Plast camp at ...

Christianity and the church are under attack. In Australia the recent euthanasia debate and the same sex marriage discussions have all put focus on religion itself. We live in a world of secularism where people are increasingly materialistic, and self-centred. ...

Our vibrant parish programme (Vision 2020) is about half way through its planned mission. The essence of the programme is to have a pastoral plan, build community, build up the Kingdom of God, and to prepare the faithful for our ...

On August 31st 2015, Archbishop Roland Minnerath of Dijon, France, spoke to our Ukrainian Catholic Synod in Ivano Frankivsk, Ukraine. I found him very interesting, in the sense that he comes from France, and while we all know that France ...

December 12th, 2012, ended without incident, well sort of, a lot of people were exposed as uninformed about The Bible, the Church and what Jesus Christ said. In Ukraine, business men made a lot of money selling candles and around ...

The Ukrainian Catholic Church is not a religion! We should never refer to it in these terms. The point here is far more serious than that. Religions are the creations of men, not God! Our church can easily become a ...

by Bishop Peter Stasiuk Divorce is a major problem in our society. Researchers say that the difference between a good marriage and divorce actually lies in communication. Happy couples communicate a lot and very well. They listen to one another, ...

H.E. Msgr. Peter Stasiuk C.Ss.R. AOS Bishop Promoter, Australia     There is no doubt that the maritime world has changed in the last decade. We have bigger ships, fewer crew members, tougher economic times, less time for shore leave, ...

  While I was in Canada last year, I heard about a very remarkable person. She had just turned 90. She was born two months premature and weighed very little at birth. She was born in 1922 in the days ...

To the clergy, religious and faithful of the Eparchy of Ss. Peter and Paul  Christ is Risen, The celebration of the Resurrection of Christ is full of images – the empty tomb – the angel’s voice, “he is not here, ...

Published in Church and Life (1848)28.3.2-13 – 24.4.2013 No 5 Worshiping God is at the centre of church life.  Everything else we do in or around the church i.e. teaching, volunteering, preaching, caring for the poor, giving money, cutting the ...