Imagine if correspondents in late 1944 had reported the Battle of the Bulge, but without explaining that it was a turning point in the second world war. Or what if finance reporters had told the story of the AIG meltdown in 2008 without adding that it raised questions about derivatives and sub-prime mortgages that could augur a vast financial implosion?

Pilgrims have their cameras ready as Pope Benedict XVI makes his way through the crowd in St Peter's Square at the Vatican before a general audience in 2007. The 85-year-old pontiff said he no longer has the energy to exercise his ministry over the Universal Church and will resign at the end of the month. Photo: CNS. The Universal Church will long feel the effects of Pope Benedict's time oc...

Little is known about St Joseph, yet he embodies the whole attitude we should have to the trials and tribulations of life. St. Joseph and the Christ Child are depicted in a stained-glass window at Immaculate Conception Church in Westhampton Beach, New York.. Photo: CNS/Gregory Shemitz I’ve always loved St Joseph, foster-father of Jesus and protector of the Holy Family. Not only is he th...

Arthur White was a quiet and - as some may have judged -  a shy man. Though his many virtues had deceptively hid his strengths. After a long struggle, Arthur White, the loving husband of Gwen for 51 years and father of nine, died in Glengarry Hospice on 22 December aged 78. Large numbers packed St Dominic’s Church in Innaloo for his concelebrated Requiem Mass on 30 December. Arthur Whi...

In an historic moment, the remains of Perth’s first Catholic Bishop, John Brady, will be laid to rest in St Mary’s Cathedral Crypt on 2 August.

A BALLAJURA parish group’s pilgrimage to the Holy Land has revealed in October what could very well be the tomb of St Joseph, husband of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God. Under the convent of the Sisters of Nazareth in the town where Christ grew up is an archaeological site of 1st century excavations including what is believed to be a Herodian tomb, a 1st century house and chapel almo...