Tag: Catholic Church
Malabar and Matraville Catholics celebrate a year of unity
Catholics of the Parish of the Holy Martyrs Andrew and Agnes, Malabar–Matraville, came together for their first annual parish dinner, marking one year since their churches’ official decree of amalgamation was signed by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP.
Q&A with Fr Flader: Development of doctrine
I was discussing with a friend recently how the teaching of the church is constantly developing, and my friend argued that in some matters it has changed altogether, to be contrary to what it was before. I didn’t think that was the case. Can you help us?
Q&A with Fr Flader: Doctors of the Church
Pope Leo XIV is soon to proclaim St John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church. Can you please tell me what criterion is used to make this decision? Also, could a lay person be named a Doctor? And what sort of writings must church Doctors have produced? Fr John Flader explains all.
Key church anniversary sparks reparation calls from English Catholics
As English Catholics commemorate their church's Victorian-era restitution, some are asking whether their country should also atone for past anti-Catholic cruelties.
God never gives up on his children, even when they fail,...
Sharing the joy of being loved by God despite one's human flaws is the mission of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV said.
The limits of bishops
Why do we have bishops in the Catholic church? Because Jesus appointed them – the “overseers” or episkopoi in the early church. What some Catholics – and some bishops – don’t seem to realise is that there are limits to what a bishop can and can’t do in his own diocese.
Q&A with Fr Flader: The importance of the sacred
I saw recently that Cardinal Robert Sarah has given an important homily on the importance of the sacred. Can you tell me something of what he said?
Anthony Ireland is installed as the 12th Catholic Archbishop of Hobart
The new Archbishop of Hobart, Most Reverend Anthony John Ireland, was installed on 12 August at St Mary’s Cathedral in Hobart during a Mass attended by close to 600 people, including bishops, clergy and lay people from around the country.
Church of England weighs proposal to place St Thomas More’s skull...
The Church of England is weighing plans to exhume and enshrine the head of St Thomas More, the patron saint of statesmen and politicians, in time for the 500th anniversary of his 1535 martyrdom.
On giving and receiving fraternal correction
Among the seven spiritual works of mercy are counselling the doubtful, instructing the ignorant, and correcting the sinner. So what is “fraternal correction”, and what isn’t?
Unpopular but loving: notes on fraternal correction
No one likes hearing the hard stuff about themselves. But sometimes we need someone to offer us a simple, clear statement of what God really wants from each of us - and how we need to change.
Q&A with Fr Flader: The veneration of relics
One of my friends was criticising me and the church for the importance we give to relics. He says they are just parts of dead people or of things they used. How can I answer him?
