The Maronite Eparchy of Australia have last month celebrated the feast of its spiritual father St Maroun on 9 February 2023, at St Maroun’s Cathedral in Redfern.

In this visually imaginative but dramatically flat third instalment in their joint screen adventures, romantically linked superheroes Ant-Man, aka Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), and The Wasp, alias Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), become the victims of a dangerous experiment.

Lent is the time, Pope Francis has said, “to proclaim that God alone is Lord, to drop the pretence of being self-sufficient and the need to put ourselves at the centre of things, to be the top of the class, to think that by our own abilities we can succeed in life and transform the world around us.”

By Cindy Wooden A boy takes a selfie with Pope Francis as the pope meets children before celebrating Mass at St Mary Josefa Parish in Rome 19 February 2017. Photo: CNS/Paul Haring. From the beginning of his pontificate 10 years ago, Pope Francis set out to reform the structure and attitudes of the Roman Curia and knew he also had to reform the Vatican's financial system and stewardship o...

Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych, spoke with a small group of reporters in Rome by Zoom on 20 February from Kyiv, a city he has left only a couple of times and only for a few days in the past year.

Western Australian Senator Dean Smith and the University of Notre Dame Professor of Theology Matthew Ogilvie write about the importance of the Church in Ukraine, and its history, in remembrance of the anniversary of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

The Church, writes Senator Smith and Prof Ogilvie, is at the forefront of relief efforts for the immediate needs of Ukrainians, but it is also there for the long term good of the people and advancement of Ukrainian culture.

The BJ Hickey Scholarship is back in full swing doing what it does best – equipping students to travel interstate and around the world in their pursuit of the study of Word of God.

This year, scholarship recipients were invited to St Mary’s Cathedral grounds on 17 February, to receive their certificates, listen to past experiences of students who had travelled to study Scripture and network with each other.

It’s appropriate that the follow-up Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – like its predecessor, a Marvel Comics-derived epic – opens with a farewell to Boseman’s King T’Challa, sovereign of the imaginary African nation of the title, before continuing the story of other important characters from the kick-off.

Exhorting South Sudanese Christians to be the “salt of the earth” and the “light of the world,” as the day’s Gospel reading called them to be, Pope Francis told the people, “This country, so beautiful yet ravaged by violence, needs the light that each one of you has, or better, the light that each one of you is.”

In his homily for the occasion, Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP, described the cardinal as a “lion of the Church”, a “giant of a man with a big vision” who proclaimed the Gospel “shamelessly, vehemently, courageously to the end”.