Tag: Hero

Professors of theology, spiritual directors and bishops all played their part to form last century’s priests, but without decades of cooking, cleaning and sewing by the Sisters of Our Lady Help of Christians many young men may never have made it to ordination.

Marinko Crnjac always chose rebellion over religion, until he was on his deathbed. Then something unexpected happened: “I saw Jesus and the Blessed Virgin Mary, and I felt like my soul had left my body and passed through purgatory and its suffering souls."

Negotiations between Calvary Public Hospital and the ACT government remain at an impasse following a meeting between Calvary’s national CEO Martin Bowles and Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith about the hospital’s compulsory acquisition

The kit offers practical ways that individuals, families, parishes and schools, can engage with Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment

Sneha Saverimuttu, 38, and her husband and Mario, 36, married in 2019 after long years of “holding on for the Catholic spouse” but their early life together hasn’t been as they hoped. At the time she met her husband Mrs Saverimuttu was grieving her father, who died unexpectedly on a family holiday aged 59.

Youth aged 18-25 are suffering the lowest sense of wellbeing on record, according to the Australian Unity Wellbeing Index, but Catholic youth differ in one key respect

Archbishop of Sydney Anthony Fisher OP is urging support for a petition asking the ACT government to reverse its decision to take over Calvary Public Hospital.

Sydney Bishop Richard Umbers, who travelled to Timor-Leste as a guest of Caritas Australia in January, welcomed Ms Robertson’s appointment as “wonderful news”.

Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton said he is shocked by the “regrettable” proposal and urged the chief minister to reverse the decision.

ACT Liberals call process 'undemocratic' after due process suspended by ACT Government, citing staff and patient welfare necessary to 'ram through' takeover in only three weeks

Archbishop Fisher said the former director of the Linacre Centre for Healthcare Ethics was a "gentle giant" who made an enormous contribution to life issues in the public square

A short documentary on the popular Walk With Christ procession shows the importance of Eucharistic processions in a secular age