Church and Life

Kirrily Manning’s work developing Occupational Therapy in Ukraine Throughout the years that Go Global, Ukraine ran at Curtin University (2009-2013), over 70 students from occupational therapy, speech therapy, physiotherapy and nutrition travelled to Ukraine to participate in the objectives of ...

On some occasions after an essay is published I receive a response from readers giving me their opinions and sharing perspectives from their life experiences. After the publication of The Critical Mass – Part I, I was called by a ...

There is one thing about 9/11 that sticks in my mind even till today. The picture of firemen rushing into the World Trade Centre, to their certain death, while everyone was running as fast as they could away from the ...

My father once told me the story of a woman who was praying in front of an Icon of Our Lord in a Church. As he recounted the story, a second woman had overheard the first woman’s fervent prayer, which ...

Catholicism is not found in a uniform worship or liturgical practice. The Catholic Church has never, ever since its earliest days 2000 years ago, been uniform in its liturgical prayers, traditions or practice. The uniformity or unity of the church ...

I ask the reader for patience as I present a series of vignettes, to hopefully unpack what I believe to be an important message. First, my grandmother was a Polish woman gifted with a sardonic wit. One day someone announced ...

In October of 2018, the Catholic Church held a Youth Synod in Rome. The Pope, many cardinals, bishops, youth and others attended. In February 2019, the Holy Father issued a final document on the Synod. In 2017, the Australian Catholic ...

A number of months ago, I entered into a conversation with a work colleague. We began speaking about the lack of Church attendance on Sundays among those fifty years of age and younger. We were not deliberating on causes or ...

On Thursday, 12th of December 2018, our Patriarch Sviatoslav issued a document called “God’s Word and Catechesis”. It is in fact a pastoral letter of our Synod which was written during the Synod of 2018 in Lviv, Ukraine. This document ...

Dead Souls (B) Yet that the individual seeks to meditate highlights that within this burgeoning market of meditation, there is an aboriginal element yearning within the most atheistic or agnostic man or woman which understands that they indeed have a ...

Ever since I was a youngster, I have heard the people argue the most about religion and politics. It seems to be true but then at the same time it first does not sound right. Both our faith and our ...