Church and Life

Daily reading of Scripture, especially the New Testament, should be joined organically to the practice of daily prayers. For in prayer we address God and in Holy Scripture God speaks to us. The Word of God helps parents to raise ...

Eliza Hamilton was in her seventies, and staying with her daughter at the latter’s home in Washington DC. She was in the backyard with her nephew, when the maid brought out to her a calling-card. It was James Monroe, the ...

In today’s society it is not unusual to hear about the forbidding of the “Our Father” being banned in certain places. Nativity scenes, Crosses and other religious symbols are removed or forbidden. All this flies in the face of the ...

If all agree to a lie – a new ‘truth’ has suddenly been discovered. Without the questioning of such ‘truths’, individuals, societies, and generations of men and women, can base their lives on illusions, – writes Dr. Andrew Thomas Kania in Church ...

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. ...

Christ began his public ministry with the proclamation: “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news” (Mk 1:15). The kingdom of God is personified in Jesus Christ. One becomes ...

Many years ago I can recall sitting in my classroom having just completed teaching for the week. In Perth, during February, summers are hot and trying. During that particular summer the ceiling fans struggled to cycle the oppressive air. The ...

The world we live in has changed a lot in the past 10-15 years. It has been changing from its’ creation, but when it comes to the level of faith, belief, moral life, social behaviour, the last 10-15 years has ...

Christ is Risen. Indeed He is Risen. My soul is consumed with longing for your law at all times. (Ps. 119:20) Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, In the 119th Psalm, we are reminded that God’s Law is a liberating ...

A number of years ago a country student studying at a Catholic boarding school, informed his Housemaster that he had decided not to attend Mass as he felt that compulsory attendance at Mass was an imposition on his basic human ...

The Easter drama contains within it many passionate themes, not the least how the greatest and most honourable man who ever lived, died the death of a base criminal; and how His life was made forfeit in order for a ...