Q&A with Fr John Flader: This week, when priests change the words at Mass.   Pope Benedict XVI, a man unlikely to make up his own prayers during Mass. Photo: CNS.   Question: Recently my wife and I attended a Mass in which the priest seemed to be making up his own prayers in the Presentation of the Gifts, the Preface and the Eucharistic Prayer. The w...

Learning to search for a God, not of my own making. By Mark Reidy   In a 2008 article, US columnist, Fr Ron Rolheiser made an interesting observation - “God made us in His image and likeness, and we have never stopped returning the favour”. It is a comment that, I believe, underpins the spiritual and moral decline that we are experiencing in society toda...

Gaining a sense of morality and the common good, shouldn't start at Universtiy, says The Record's Catherine Parish. By Catherine Parish   I have just read through Macquarie University Vice Chancellor Steven Schwartz’s inaugural annual vice-chancellor’s oration.  Titled “Re-Moralising the University”, essentially he posits that universit...

A growing “inside story”? Fr Anthony Paganoni, Scalabrinian, continues a series for The Record this week reflecting on what, if any, future the Church has in Europe and why this is important for us.   Students from Rome's Sapienza University display a banner of their Catholic group Communion and Liberation, a relatively new lay movement, during Pope Benedict XV...

War and remembrance: Vatican highlights Pope Pius XII’s peace efforts.   German troops march through Warsaw, Poland, in September 1939. The invasion marked the start of World War II.. Photo: CNS/National Archives.  

A community of Episcopal nuns and their chaplain were set to be received into the Catholic Church by the archbishop of Baltimore on September 3.   An All Saints Sister of the Poor.   BALTIMORE, Maryland,  (Zenit.org) - Ten sisters from the Society of All Saints’ Sisters of the Poor were to be received into the Church by Archbishop Edwin O&rsqu...

Thiry people set out from Subiaco to make their way to New Norcia.   Fr Joseph Walsh, Parish Priest of St Joseph’s Church in Subiaco and his fellow pilgrims stop for a short break on the first day of their pilgrimage as an ABC camera crew film. Photo: Robert Hiini.   By Robert Hiini Over 162 years after Salvado and Serra set out from Perth, ...

A regular meeting of six married women in Canberra eventually grew into a national event for Catholic women. Perth Respect Life Officer Bronia Karniewicz reports on the Sisterhood conference and its brand of the new feminism. Faces of the new - and young - feminism inspired by, among other things, the thinking of Polish philosopher, bishop and Pope, John Paul II on the issue of woman an...

According to their markers, women's participation in the Church still lacking, Bishop's conference told.      By Anthony Barich Women’s participation in the Church is at the same level it was in 2000, it was revealed at a conference hosted by the Australian bishops’ Council for Australian Catholic Women in Canberra last week. In April 1999 th...

CWL national conference opened.   Professor Celia Hammond, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Notre Dame, with the CWL National president Karyn Kammann.   By Glynnis Grainger A procession of banners preceded the opening of the Catholic Women’s League’s 44th National Biennial Conference at the Novotel Langley on Monday, August 31. The t...