Tag: Highlights

Photographer Armando Lay visited Timor-Leste on assignment with The Catholic Weekly in September. But what he found there with his poor nation’s faithful was personal healing and the resolution of long-standing questions about his own identity.

Controversy over women's ordination, even at the synod, detracts attention from the plight of women in the Catholic Church and society, said an Australian bishop, who is a member of the Synod of Bishops.

Commentators online cross about the Synod on Synodality’s penitential service say the cardinals’ public confessions on behalf of the church “don’t speak for me.” Be bemused at some of the language, but don't forget that intercession before God is what the priesthood is all about, writes Monica Doumit.

UNDA theologian Dr Peter Holmes’ quest for answers about manhood and countless conversations with men led to his first book, Redeeming Masculinity: A Catholic Theology of Masculinity. The text is a readable journey through the church’s teaching on the value and importance of being a man.

Revisiting books about family life in the past is a nice reminder of just how good we middle-class Catholics have got it today. So join Philippa Martyr in thanksgiving for the blessings of our modern world.

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe from Perth, reflected on the synodal journey so far in his homily for the 368 members of the Synod of Bishops, gathered at the Vatican for a two-day retreat ahead of the opening of the second session of the synod 2 October.

Hezbollah's central headquarters in Beirut's southern suburbs were struck multiple times 27 September by Israeli missiles, shaking the Lebanese capital. The next day Iran-backed Hezbollah confirmed the military organisation's leader Hassan Nasrallah died in the strike.

Young people’s increased exposure to technology and social media is reducing their ability to live in the present moment, Catholic psychologist Dr Greg Bottaro told Sydney Catholic youth at the latest instalment of the popular “Fidelis” series.

This is the edited text of the homily given by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP at the Mass for the 60th anniversary of All Saints Catholic Church Liverpool and 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 22 September 2024. 

Past and present parishioners and pastors joined dignitaries for a warm celebration of the diamond jubilee of the All Saints church building in Liverpool, among them, the first woman married there.

Pope Francis made headlines recently when he said that all religions are paths to God. Of course the pope is Catholic and does not believe in false religious pluralism. But neither is he a tribalist, writes Fr Peter Kwak.

If the graces of the International Eucharistic Congress will be anything like what we saw with World Youth Day 2008, then the next generation of Catholics will be in for a treat, writes Monica Doumit.