An evening of talks will offer interested parties the opportunity to get to know the life and legacy of Perth’s controversial first Catholic bishop a little better.

Participants at the annual March for Life in Washington on January 25 demonstrated just how determined they are, not only by showing up in such large numbers on a bitter, cold day, but by continuing a 40-year tradition of protesting the US Supreme Court’s decision legalising abortion.

Alicen sent Shareen a Valentine but for a long time she did not see it. When she did, she ignored it, but the will of God has its own way of working out, reports Joanne Shepherd …

“Faith is knowing the truth and adhering to it; charity is ‘walking’ in the truth,” the Pope said in his annual message for Lent, which in 2013 begins on February 13 for Latin-rite Catholics. “Faith is genuine only if crowned by charity.”

New archbishop of Canterbury reiterates opposition to same-sex marriage

Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop has been named as Australia’s second patron after the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) received a formal decree approving her appointment.

The Catholic Church has never encouraged anyone to use ivory for religious devotional objects and, in fact, teaches that animals must be treated with respect, the Vatican spokesman said in response to questions posed in an online National Geographic editorial, saying, “thinking that there is an important ivory trafficking centre to uproot here (in the Vatican) in order to save African elephants makes no sense”.

Our society and workforce are ageing, but as a community we have not adequately prepared for it, writes Sheila Cummins.

Some of WA’s most gifted Year 12 students gathered at The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Fremantle Campus in January for its annual Cultural DeCoding program.

The work of Caritas Australia across the globe can only happen because of those who generously donate to Project Compassion, writes Jack de Groot.