with Kersti Rundle (pictured) I was brought up Uniting Church and baptised in that denomination. I attended the classes for Confirmation but didn’t go through with it much to my parents’ horror. I was a bit of a teenage rebel. Originally, I joined the RCIA group at the Whitfords parish to learn what my children were learning as they are all enrolled in Catholic school. ...

MADRID, Spain (CNA) - The postulator of Pope John Paul II’s cause for beatification has said that the process is currently at a crucial moment as miracles attributed to the late Pontiff’s intercession are being investigated. Polish Mgr Slawomir Oder in Rome in 2007 when he gave details on the investigation into the healing of a French nun, whose spontaneous recovery from Park...

This is yet another iPhone/iPod Touch App that is making life easier for many technology savvy people around the globe.  iBreviaryPro is exactly what the name states – a readymade, easy to use Breviary complete with Lauds, The Daily Office, Daytime Prayers, Vespers, Compline for both Roman and Ambrosian Rites. Tom Gourlay   The application was develope...

iMass It has been just over three years since the Pope issued his 2007 Motu Proprio, Summorum Pontificum, on the celebration of the Roman Rite according to the 1962 Missal, the Tridentine Mass, now more correctly referred to as Mass in the Extraordinary Form (EF). Tom Gourlay This document, which has given unprecedented freedom for priests to celebrate the sacred liturgy o...

Last week on a beautiful spring morning, 90 pilgrims from St Emilie De Vialar Parish,  Canning Vale set off in two buses to travel to Bullsbrook, Bindoon and New Norcia on a spiritual journey led by Parish Priest Fr Robert Carillo. The pilgrims in the Monastery Church at New Norcia where Bishop Salvado, the Benedictine monastery’s founder, is buried. The St Emilie de Viala...

The publisher of one of the biggest Catholic papers in the US has spoken frankly about the Catholic media’s real role   The Catholic press in the United States faces the challenges of writing for a Catholic population with a weakening identity and a distrust of institutions, the president of Our Sunday Visitor publishing has noted. However, he sees cause for hope in new t...

It exists, but often it’s not clear why. It usually thinks of itself as the poor cousin to the secular media. It hardly ever breaks big news. Often, its main purpose seems to be to protect the Church from bad news and the rule is usually that Catholics can’t be allowed to know.  Often, it is the last to find out what’s going on. Is this what the Catholic media is meant ...

Over 25,000 mainly young people from 57 countries attended the beatification in Rome on Saturday, 25 September, of Chiara ‘Luce’ Badano, who died in 1990 at just 18 years of age. Young people celebrate the beatification of Blessed Chiara Badano during an event in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican on 25 September. Archbishop Barry Hickey celebrated Mass on 26 September. Main...

Pontifical North American College seminarians Keith D. Romke of the Diocese of Rockford, Ill., Mark R. Payton of the Archdiocese of Perth, Australia, and George K. Nixon of the Diocese of Providence, R.I., are seen after being ordained deacons in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 7. Thirty seminarians from the U.S. national seminary were ordained deacons. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) (Oct. 7...

Sydney Auxiliary Bishop Julian Porteous’ latest book, A New Wine and Fresh Skins, sold out at its Western Australian launch at St Mary’s Cathedral parish centre on 6 October. Associate Professor John Kinder of the University of WA chats with Auxiliary Bishop Julian Porteous of Sydney after the launch of Bishop Porteous’ book last Wednesday. Photo: Bridget Spink...