Church and Life

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 ...

The model of the Christian’s prayer is the Lord Jesus Christ himself. The Saviour prayed often, be it alone in solitary places (see Lk 5:16) or together with his disciples (see Lk 9:18). Sometimes he prayed into the night (see ...

Most of us are acquainted with a domino run. As a child we may have stood dominoes in a line in order to view the elaborate patterns we could construct, and seeing over what distance and over what obstacles they ...

One of the most sustained attacks on Christianity in history started with the Russian Revolution (1917) and continued until the collapse of the Soviet regime in 1991, – writes Bishop Peter Stasiuk in Church and Life. During that time it ...

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. ...