Christianity isn’t a philosophy or guide to survival, good behavior and peace, it’s a relationship with a real person who died on the cross for our sins, Pope Francis said.
Calling Israeli Christians who are trying to distance themselves from their Arab identity a “small marginal minority,” the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land and the Justice and Peace Commission of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem reaffirmed their identity as Palestinian Arabs.
Holy Cross College has taken a significant step in its development with the arrival of students in kindergarten – Year 2.
Dozens of white dove-shaped balloons were released into the air on Saturday March 29 outside St Mary’s Cathedral in honour of the International Day of the Unborn Child.
The Archdiocese of Perth launched its Sacramental Policy for School Aged Children at the Vietnamese Catholic Centre in Westminster on March 20, in front of educators, clergy, and members of advocacy.
One Church Father suggests we ought to forget the safe and the secure if we want to inculcate the faith, Dr Andrew Kania writes. An only-apparent Christian environment could be toxic to our immediate or ongoing conversion. At the same time, there is wisdom in the secular and non-Christian which a love of true learning, illuminated by grace, will not reject.
Catholic Health Australia chair Rowena McNally toured Pakistan’s health system with Fr Robert McCulloch in January, an Australian who has worked to improve health and education in that country for more than 30 years.
Caritas Chile has continued moving materials into an area of northern Chile hit hard by an April 1 earthquake and the subsequent aftershocks, which have prevented some people from sleeping in their homes.
Repeated references to persecution of Christians, “usually referring only to what Christians suffer at the hands of criminals claiming to be Muslims, plays into the hands of extremists,” said Catholic leaders in the Holy Land.
The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace said he welcomed the possible release of a Senate intelligence committee report that says the CIA used torture techniques in interrogating some terror suspects after 9/11.