British philosopher Timothy Chappell says it is becoming increasingly necessary to insist on the personhood of people. You don’t get your personhood switched off just because you fall ill, he says. In the real world, it just doesn’t work that way.

The people of God are hungry for more good shepherds – shepherds after Christ’s own heart. So said Archdiocesan vocations director Fr Jean-Noel Marie during his homily at a special Holy Hour for Vocations last Sunday afternoon at St Mary’s Cathedral.

The Archdiocese of Perth and the Redemptorists of North Perth have issued an open invitation to both a 6.30pm vigil service at the Redemptorist Monastery on September 2 and the 7pm reinterment Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral on September 3. Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB will be the chief celebrant at the Mass.

A Catholic education initiative in Melbourne and Sydney aims to achieve where previous catechetical approaches have failed, Melbourne Bishop Peter Elliott told The Record recently.

Learning is important but the truest knowledge is the love of God experienced in our own hearts. It is that ineffable understanding which Salvatorian Father Karol Kulczycki SDS tries to pass on in his priestly ministry – at the parish and school in which he serves, and as the leader of 20 Salvatorian priests and brothers serving in Western Australia and Sydney.

Being a good priest is about giving – giving until it hurts. So says the parish priest of Good Shepherd Lockridge, Father Francis Ly, some 32 years after arriving in Australia as a Vietnamese refugee and a year shy of his 30th year in the priesthood.

Although traditions are sometimes dismissed as decreasingly relevant in the modern world, others see them as more important than ever. From July 2-5 the University of Notre Dame Australia’s Sydney campus was the site of a major conference on Tradition and whether it is a help or hindrance to modern life, as Robert Hiini reports…

Is everyone supposed to be involved in traditional understanding? How far back and to what extent should one appropriate the tradition? Bishop Anthony Fisher OP of Parramatta answers frank questions at Tradition 2013.

What about slavery? So say the Church’s critics, and not a few Catholics, when contemplating the integrity of Catholic Sacred Tradition. Bishop Anthony Fisher OP tackled the issue head-on at a recent conference.

Catholic education is not producing commitment to the Catholic faith parents and religious educators hope for and expect, Sydney Auxiliary Bishop Julian Porteous wrote on his blog yesterday. Despite the Church’s heavy investment in Catholic schools, participation in the sacramental life by young people graduating from Catholic schools was low. “The Catholic Church in Australia can be ...