Questions open up in wake of mother’s death. Maria del Carmen Bousada, with her twins shortly after they were born in 2006. A woman listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's oldest mother has died of cancer, leaving her IVF twins orphans with an uncertain future. Maria del Carmen Bousada, from Barcelona, gave birth to sons Pau and Christian in 2006, after f...

Current translation may have masked truth and beauty, says Melboune Archbishop, Denis Hart, in the lead up to the implementation of the new English translation. Archbishop Denis Hart. By Anthony Barich   The current Missal translations that the English-speaking world has used for the past 40 years have hidden the Church’s true faith, Archbishop Denis Hart of...

More education for medical students and doctors will advance Palliative Care by light years, says Perth specialist.     Demonstrators against physician-assisted suicide, some in wheelchairs, protest outside the US Supreme Court building in Washington in 2005. But relatively simple measures in the field of Palliative Care make euthanasia unecessary, a specialist in...

Palliative care makes euthanasia unneccesary: Dr Hames and UNDA expert.   UNDA’s Gavin Frost.   By Anthony Barich The tragic cases put forward by euthanasia advocates do not reflect the state of Palliative Care in WA and do not justify euthanasia laws, State Health Minister Dr Kim Hames told The Record. Dr Hames, a former general practitioner...

NYC Friars perform at Catholic Underground in Sydney. Sr Mary Madeline OP, a Dominican Sister of St Cecilia from Nashville, Tennessee, talks on ‘Feminine Genius’ during the SCENE Congress. By Bridget Spinks Close to 500 people attended "Catholic Underground" (CU) at Sydney's St Mary's Cathedral on July 18 to launch a week of evangelisation activitie...

Britain’s multi-sided attacks on Christianity are astonishing, says The Record's Guy Crouchback. By Guy Crouchback A favourite expression of communist political writing was that some set of facts or other was “no coincidence,” implying that there was more to matters than met the eye. In a string of incidents in Britain Christians have been discriminated against...

Dinner at home can be an education in the Eucharist says husband and wife team. By Karen and Derek Boylen Having dinner together in the Boylen household doesn’t happen without the usual amount of chaos.  Children are hungry, Daddy walks through the door welcomed by a frazzled wife trying to get the last parts of dinner prepared whilst keeping the starving masses from ra...

Q&A with Fr John Flader. This week's question: What is the Catholic Church’s view on cremation? I thought it was forbidden but in recent years I have heard of several good Catholics whose bodies were cremated.   By Fr John Flader Let me begin with a brief history of the Church’s customs regarding the dead. Going back to the Old Testament, it is clear th...

Fr Erasto Fernandez SSS, a priest from India, continues his series on the Eucharist during this the Year for Priests. This week: The Word - A different language. By Fr Erasto Fernandez SSS To understand God’s word fruitfully we first must appreciate the role of the spoken word in our dealings with one another.  The words we speak are not just sound-waves – they...

Moon landing: Vatican Radio marks anniversary with Pope Paul VI texts. By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - “Honour, greetings and blessings to you, conquerers of the moon, pale lamp of our nights and our dreams,” Pope Paul VI said in a message to the three Apollo 11 astronauts who had just landed on the moon. The night of July 20-21, 1969, Pope Paul had spent time look...