Tag: Highlights

Pope Francis called on Catholics to focus their Holy Year 2025 pilgrimages on Jesus Christ, who is both the path and destination for Christian hope.

Coming from a Lebanese background, our Christmas table is filled with our traditional food. Around 20 years ago I decided to introduce glazed ham, writes Jocelyne Mansour.

I have friends in the charismatic movement who speak of healing the family tree, when there has been serious sin in a previous generation which has supposedly affected a descendant. I can’t understand the logic of this practice. Is there any basis for it?

Australian Christmas movies are something of a rarity, as are Australian movies based on songs. The recently released How to Make Gravy movie, which is available to stream now, is both of these things. It is based on Paul Kelly’s 1996 Christmas classic of the same name.  

As Pope Francis became the first pope to celebrate Mass on the French island of Corsica 15 December, the usual excitement of an open-air Mass with the pope was combined with the flair and pageantry of a Renaissance fair.

Thousands came to St Mary’s Cathedral with their families and friends, to enjoy the much-anticipated opening night of its annual Christmas at the Cathedral on 12 December. 

Father Roger Purcell MSC is the Director of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, Mission Office, at the Sacred Heart Monastery in Kensington. He has been made a tribal chief three times and had malaria more often than he can remember.

This is the edited text of the homily for the Centenary Mass of St Ambrose Concord West Parish, 2nd Sunday of Advent, 8 December 2024.

This week Philippa talks about how hell is not a place but a state of being—complete separation from God’s love, chosen freely.

The Christ the King Syro-Malabar Mission community in Holsworthy showed off its rich tradition with the recent celebration of the feast of Christ the King on 24 November.

Bishop Mykola Bychok CSrR, Eparch of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in Australia and Oceania, was made the Catholic Church’s youngest cardinal by Pope Francis in a solemn yet joyous ceremony in Rome on 7 December.

Becoming a cardinal is an insistent call to put Jesus at the centre of one's life, to love the poor as he did and to strengthen the bonds of unity within the Catholic Church, Pope Francis said as he created 21 new cardinals from 17 nations.