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Obsession and the search for true love

A new horror film offers more than supernatural scares. Beneath its frightening premise lies a powerful reflection on obsession, love and the human heart.

Lessons from Anne Frank for a fractured society

As the Royal Commission into Anti-Semitism and Social Cohesion hears evidence of rising hostility towards Jewish Australians, a recent production of The Diary of Anne Frank offered timely lessons about faith, human dignity and the dangers of prejudice.

Pop culture is quietly becoming more Christian

From The Chosen to Jelly Roll’s Grammy Awards acceptance speech, there is a noticeable shift in pop culture’s treatment of Christianity and Catholicism.

What the Farm reveals about the state of the world and...

Those who find their way to the Farm at Galong, the residential program for women recovering from substance misuse and domestic violence, provide a great lesson to Catholics on the godless condition of the modern world.

Flow: The mesmerising tale of a cat at the end of...

Flow is the kind of film which can only come from someone who has three things: a love of the cinema, an idea, and a lot of patience.

Dr Kevin Donnelly: Culture, not science or skepticism, will fulfil us

Among the most insidious and destructive aspects of Marxism and its recent manifestations cultural-Marxism and absolutist secularism is how the end always justifies the means and how any sense of the spiritual and the transcendent is lost.

Writer on a mission to re-fire Catholic imagination

The fourth biennial Catholic Imagination Conference, bringing together Catholic poets, novelists and artists for two days of readings, panels, workshops and fellowship, was held...

Toxic Warning

Australia’s first and oldest parliament, described by those in power as a cornerstone of our nation’s democracy is today in disarray, caught in a...

Dumping Western civilisation: the difference Christianity makes

When distinguishing between one’s contemporary culture and those that are foreign and in the past the English scholar and Catholic historian Christopher Dawson argues...

Kevin Donnelly: Liberal Arts will outlast the academy’s decay

While published in 1995, Christopher Lasch in The Revolt of the Elites makes a number of prescient points about what is now known as cancel-culture. Years before neo-Marxist-inspired critical theory become the new orthodoxy Lasch warned about how minority groups were challenging Western societies. Lasch writes in relation to American colleges and universities: “Having discredited […]

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Cultural differences bring school community together

St Joseph the Worker Catholic Primary School Auburn South is leading the way in cultural diversity with its students hailing from 32 different nationalities,...

Peter Rosengren: The most dangerous thing in the world

In a world that's turned upside-down, believing Catholic families remain an untapped power Recent events on a range of fronts have communicated ever more forcefully...
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