The scent of cinnamon from freshly prepared bowls of custard filled a communal kitchen at the Syriac Center before the daily meal preparations began. St. Gabriel Syriac Orthodox Church houses the center, which houses about 150 refugees in this mountain village 19 miles north of Beirut.

The archbishop of Los Angeles called upon the United States to remember the humanity of men, women and children in the country illegally or risk losing its soul.

Pope Francis celebrated his first Palm Sunday Mass as pope March 24, telling an overflow crowd in St. Peter’s Square that Christ’s death on the cross is a source of eternal consolation and joy.

The winding road from the Mount of Olives to the streets of the Old City of Jerusalem was alive with music and song in many languages as global pilgrims joined local Christian Palestinians in the traditional Palm Sunday procession commemorating Jesus’ entry into the city.

On Palm Sunday, as the Church began the celebrations of Holy Week, Year 7 students from Kolbe Catholic College and the Star of the Sea Primary School Choir celebrated with the parishioners of Our Lady of Lourdes in Rockingham.

With a warm embrace, a helping hand, shared prayer, a long discussion and lunch together, Pope Francis spent several hours with retired Pope Benedict XVI March 23 at the papal summer villa.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Pope Francis confirmed he would be in Rio de Janeiro in July for World Youth Day and, she said, he also told her he intended to visit Brazil’s National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida.

Sister Kate Kuenstler, a canon lawyer, had finished her talk about the rights of laypeople under Church canons when a man in the audience posed a question: How could he stop the bulldozers from tearing down his beloved church? The more she read, the more she understood the steps required to suppress, or close, a parish. She began to see that bishops did not always follow canon law or were unaware of canons governing closures.

On the evening of July 4, 1976, Rodolfo Capalozza, then a seminarian in Argentina for the Pallottine religious community in Buenos Aires, made a fateful decision to catch a movie and then visit his parents. In the morning, Capalozza would learn that two other seminarians and three priests from the community were repeatedly shot after midnight at the church rectory of San Patricio in the Argentine capital’s Belgrano district.

By Hugh Ryan This week’s article is the second in a series looking back over the WA Marist Brothers’ century. Brother Sebastian Hayden, who had helped Br Stanislaus to establish SIC in 1913-1916, returned as principal in 1929-31. NZ-born, he was trained in Sydney and spent the rest of his life in Australia. He was a prefect at St Joseph’s and not long afterwards he returned to spen...