Church and Life

On Friday 19th October we had the honour to host a small group of residents from Kalyna Care to our museum “Bishop Ivan Prasko Memorial Library and Museum of Ukrainian Arts and Crafts”. The museum is located on the same ...

As a Retreat master at an all-boys Catholic College, it is part of my duty to invite priests to the Retreats, often to celebrate the Eucharist but mainly to hear the confessions of the students. When I create a roster ...

Actually, that’s why each one of us is born for. We normally call that going to heaven. Of course, we all want to be “holy!” Recently Pope Francis wrote a letter to the world on this topic. He talks about ...

As a consequence of our first parents’ fall, human will became weakened. The capacity to recognize and choose the good was also enfeebled. In their relations with God and neighbour and in their attitude towards themselves and their environment, human ...

by his son, Dr. Andrew Thomas Kania It has been quite a while since I sat down to write. My father’s passing, his funeral, and the aftermath of his death have been at the forefront of my time and thoughts. ...

All people search for happiness. Most people, if they are really honest with themselves, come to realize that of all the things they have done in life in order to be happy and fulfilled, have not really worked out. Some ...

The Apostle to the Gentiles expresses the relational intimacy between God and the individual so well when he writes to the Romans, on the subject of prayer, that what we say in prayer has been put into our hearts by ...

It looks like almost everybody does, judging from the way we buy lottery tickets. Recently in Australia, one third of all Australians bought a ticket for a 1 in 80 million chance to win 100 million dollars. In the USA ...

The state is a form of organizing the life of a nation. Every people strives to preserve its identity through the creation of a state. As a political community, the state exists for the common good when, through its pertinent ...

St. Augustine of Hippo, the great doctor of the Latin Church, once wrote that when we sing in praise of God, we pray twice. Be that as it may, I remember once asking members of one of the most famous ...

Observers of Ukrainian culture and faith have always stated the defining moment in Ukrainian culture was the day that St. Volodymyr in 988 baptised all of Ukraine on the banks of the river Dnipro, – writes Bishop Peter Stasiuk in Church ...