Church and Life

When you hear these words, which are spoken quite often, you also hear “you know what I mean”. Nearly one fifth of all Australians identify themselves as “spiritual but not religious”. The 2016 Australian census for the first time in ...

By Dr. Andrew Thomas Kania In the Academy Award winning motion picture, Sophie Scholl (2005), the title character, Sophie (1922 – 1943), is a young woman born into pre-war Nazi Germany. A member of institutions created by the NAZI party, ...

Bishop Peter Stasiuk article on our fallen heroes from the war in Eastern Ukraine Dr Andrew Kania’s article on the impact of leaders over the years Bishop Peter welcomes Your Eminence Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Your Excellency Archbishop Adolfo Yllana, Apostolic ...

A lack of cultural sensitivity, a lack of historical awareness, a lack of political context, blended with sheer arrogance, pride and then completed with more than a little military clout – is a dangerous cocktail for any world leader to ...

Rarely in motion pictures are the eternal questions of love, suffering and life depicted with such a degree of sensitivity and poignancy then in the 1993 motion picture, Shadowlands; a dramatic portrayal of the famous British author, C. S. Lewis ...

When it comes to politics and faith, Kyiv has always looked west, never north, – writes Bishop Peter Stasiuk in his article for The Church and Life Newspaper. It seems that the only winds that blew down on Ukraine from ...

Christ is Risen, Our theology is a theology that focuses on the resurrection of Jesus.   In the words of St John of Damascus: “We shall therefore rise again, our souls being once more united with our bodies, now made incorruptible ...

From the moment of one’s Baptism, every Christian enters into spiritual combat. There we die to sin, in order to live for God. Tlhis battle, as the apostle Paul teaches, is not about wrestling against flesh and blood, but against ...

Cover – Bishop Peter Stasiuk’s article discussing issues youth issues of today. Page 2 – In Dr Andrew Kania’s article he discusses how love conquers all, how Christ’s love for us is stronger than anything. Page 3 – A summary ...