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While canon law is often associated with annulments and church governance, its role in discerning new religious movements and protecting the faithful from deception is equally important.

The Sydney Synod should not be seen as a finished event, but as part of the church’s ongoing journey of faith and mission. Its real fruit will come through prayerful implementation, guided by the Holy Spirit.

Although the path to full communion has become "more difficult to discern," Catholics and Anglicans must continue on the path of dialogue and "proclaim Christ to the world," Pope Leo XIV said in his first meeting with Anglican Archbishop Sarah Mullally of Canterbury.

After thinking about the big questions in life, Christopher's curiosity about truth led him to the Catholic Church.

Ahead of the Sydney Synod, expert speakers reflect on the three key themes of liturgy, community and mission, sharing their hopes for renewal across the Archdiocese of Sydney.

Peter Gates has been appointed national director of Catholic Mission, succeeding Fr Brian Lucas. A long-serving leader, he brings more than 30 years’ experience to the church’s Australian mission agency.

The world’s Catholic bishops are required by canon law to visit Rome every five years to meet with the pope and pray at the tombs of the apostles Peter and Paul.

‘Sanctuary’ comes from the Latin word for holy, and this is the place where the sacrifice of the Mass takes place, explains Fr John Flader.

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.

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?

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.

As English Catholics commemorate their church's Victorian-era restitution, some are asking whether their country should also atone for past anti-Catholic cruelties.