All Churches were closed this Easter due to the coronavirus pandemic. Christianity was listed as a non-essential service for believers.

The reasons the church continues to honour the Apostle of Ireland more than 1500 years after his death shine forth in the film “I Am Patrick” (CBN), a docudrama that will be screened in theatres on dates to be announced.

In support of Australia’s frontline healthcare workers, The University of Notre Dame Australia’s School of Nursing and Midwifery is launching free online continuing professional development (CPD) short courses for any healthcare professional looking to refresh and upskill themselves in the management of the critically ill patient.

As the world slowly recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a risk it will be struck by an even worse virus – that of selfish indifference, Pope Francis said.

Once again, the great celebrations of our Christian faith have arrived. In this Holy Week, we remember the final days of Jesus’ life, when His love for us is shown in such a powerful and uncompromising way as he is lifted up on the cross.

“As a juxtaposition of the fast-paced and stressed world we live in, music within the liturgical sense has now become, and will continue to provide, a stillness and reflection we need.”

Is it only humans who have a soul? What about buildings, communities and organisations? These thorny questions have been the subject of much reflection for poets, playwrights, artists, theologians and philosophers for centuries and they often come up with contradictory answers.

e Catechism of the Catholic Church reminds us that: ”The human person, created in the image of God, is a being at once corporeal and spiritual” (CCC 362). This means that we are comprised of both the physical aspects as biological beings and the spiritual, which is God’s Spirit in us from the moment we were conceived, and which returns to God when we die.

As recently as December 2019, John Barich was driving an hour round trip to take his youngest grandson to school twice a week, then continue on to his National Civic Council office to maintain the late Bob Santamaria’s work of promoting Judeo-Christian values in Australia’s political life.

In an Easter celebration like no other, Pope Francis prayed that Christ, “who has already defeated death and opened for us the way to eternal salvation”, would “dispel the darkness of our suffering humanity and lead us into the light of his glorious day, a day that knows no end”.