Tag: Catholic Teaching

It’s that time of year again. You know—when you go to the cemetery and clean up the gravesites belonging to your family and place some flowers there. You have Masses said for them in your parish and you take your kids along to show them why it’s important to pray for the family dead.

George Weigel gathers with young Catholic friends, "The Pizza Group," in Rome where he believes they represent the future of Catholic evangelism.

I think that satisfying the desire of a very small group of affluent women who want the diaconate for themselves for personal reasons is not enough of a reason to upend 2,000 years of church teaching. And thankfully this time round, Pope Francis agrees with me, writes Dr Philippa Martyr.

Europe takes a stand against human trafficking with new laws on surrogacy. Understand the conditions under which it is considered a crime.

When my family used to homeschool, I used to interrogate myself about which was be worse: The horrible knowledge that I was in charge of everything they would learn that day? Or (if we switched to someone else teaching) the horrible knowledge I wasn’t in charge of anything they would learn that day? 

Should consistently refusing to use a person’s preferred name and pronouns in the hope that they will not persist with their transgender identity put...

I’m continuing to explore a group of around 700 young Australian Catholics who go to Mass. They are divided into two groups – the weekly massgoers, or “weeklies”, and the less regular massgoers, or “irregulars.”

Can we assume that just because someone turns up at Mass, they believe what the church teaches? You would think so, but it’s not always the case. I’m sure we’ve all been to that parish barbeque.

If you want to know the end-game of those pushing to remove exemptions for religious schools in anti-discrimination law, you only need to look at what has been happening in Tasmania. A new curriculum for Year 11 and Year 12 religion is planned to begin next year.

Humanity needs a “new revolution” in how it thinks about sex, Pope Francis has said in two recent addresses, adding that “gender ideology” is a form of ideological colonisation that seeks to “cancel differences.”

NSW Legislative Council committee report backs parental rights in draft Latham gender legislation. Parents will have a legal right to withdraw their children from classes...

Last time in this space we discussed the embarrassment of a Catholic school forbidding its students to wear their uniforms to a climate change...