Tag: Sacraments

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.”

The last of the annual Steubenville youth conferences is winding down. These are huge, popular, teen-oriented Catholic gatherings at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio, here in the US.

If we’re really serious our focus is the reality of Jesus and His love - and what it means for us in daily life I...

By Francis Etheredge ‘In sermons and talks, use simple language and a homely conversational style to explain each particular point” “far as you can,...

I looked at the date and gasped out loud. How can it possibly be this late already, with so much left undone? Every single...

Sydney’s newly appointed Auxiliary Bishop, Danny Meagher has told an online gathering of sacramental coordinators, that they are called to be the presence of...

Every now and then, someone – usually on The Catholic Weekly Facebook page – will tell me that they no longer go to Mass...

This week I’m back to the Novus Ordo, because I had an interesting online chat with a US friend. She said that when the...

Hundreds gathered at Rome's Gemelli hospital to greet Pope Francis in his first public appearance following surgery.

Difficulty growing up as a boy I am a man in my late twenties. During my time in the womb, my father became sick and...

About a decade ago, I went to confession for the umpteenth time for a sin I had struggled with for years: gluttony. I had confessed...

Change through a personal encounter with Christ Remarkably, the new Instrumentum Laboris is the most honest Church document I’ve ever seen produced in Australia. So...