Tag Archives: Church and Life

A number of weeks ago my attention was drawn to an issue raised at a local Catholic School to which the son of a close friend of mine attends. The situation was as follows. In line with the recommendation that ...

Everybody has had a dream, probably several times each night. Scientists believe that all warm-blooded animals dream during sleep. This includes your pets. That is all very natural. When we wake up, we very quickly target that we had a ...

I realize there is so much that I don’t know. I am limited by the breadth and depth of my inability to fully perceive events and ideas. Reading gives me knowledge, but not wisdom – study may give me information, ...

Over the last 10 years, our Patriarchal Vision 2020 group has been presenting us with a pastoral renewal programme to rejuvenate our church worldwide. After 10 years, the programme has proved to be very beneficial. A new pastoral programme for ...

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 ...