@Home with Catherine Parish Germaine Greer published an article on 5 May in the Australian Literary Review, the monthly literary magazine of The Australian newspaper. It is supposed to be a look back at the 40 years of feminism since her book The Female Eunuch was published. Feminism has brought many advantages for women. They can now participate freely in the workforce throughout...

I Say, I Say By Mark Reidy An unexpected revelation has drastically altered my outlook on life - my children are not mine. Now before I receive a frenzied call from my mother-in-law, let me explain. Recently my family shifted across town and consequently my children had to attend a new school. Amongst all the struggles and stresses associated with moving house, the social u...

Being Heard by John Heard Reading Dante as a younger man, I was transfixed by the descriptions of Limbo. Having discovered the classical world (its literature, philosophy and artefacts) at about the same age I loved any news of the virtuous pagan. John Heard In Dante, my heroes, a collection of people who lived good lives without (indeed, before) Christ, were remember...

Life Matters By Bronia Karniewicz, Archdiocesan Respect Life Office In the Rally for Life last week, over 400 people walked from St Mary’s Cathedral to Parliament House. This impressive turn out has the community discussing our abortion laws again. It’s a fantastic thing.   Bronia Karniewicz   At present, the law in Western Australia ...

CELIBACY needs to be purified, not abandoned, while rigorist notions of sexuality, gaps in seminary training, triumphalism and clericalism must be eliminated from Church culture, Canberra-Goulburn Archbishop Mark Coleridge said in a Pentecost letter on sex abuse. Archbishop Mark Coleridge Archbishop Coleridge, a former chaplain to Pope John Paul II, said the Church’s c...

Parish man helps Burmese refugees Josh Last teaches children in a Burma refugee camp how to play the guitar. A BATEMAN parishioner and regular Murdoch University Catholic Chaplaincy devotee with a heart for Burmese children living in an unofficial refugee camp is set to host his second “Burmese Refugee Charity Concert” on 13 June at Railway Hotel, North Fremantle. Perth...

UNDA marks the 20th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s key document for Catholic universities Sister Moira Debono and Mr Paul Morrissey, two of the four theologians who marked Ex Corde Ecclesia’s 20th anniversary together with students at UNDA’s Sydney campus last week. PHOTO: Courtesy UNDA The four resident theologians at the University of Notre Dame Australia&r...

  Click on this image to download this week's entire edition in PDF.  May 12 Highlights include:   Whitford parish welcomes centenarian into the Church Archbishop Hickey calls for volunteers in new Evangelisation centre Sydney Archdiocese re-establishes the permanent deaconate The Kung v Weigel letters inside this edition IN PICTURES:...

The matter of the insults to the Pope by the British Foreign Office has something funny about it. Not funny hah-hah but funny peculiar.   People walk past the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London April 25. The British government has apologized to the Vatican for an official memo that proposed the launch of "Benedict condoms" and the opening of an abortion cli...

Nutrition and hydration in the vegetative state - - Question: I recently heard of a person who regained the ability to communicate after being in a persistent vegetative state for many years. I give thanks to God for that but my question is: what is the Church’s teaching on keeping such patients alive with nutrition and hydration for such a long time? Is it necessary or ca...