At each historic place, participants made a connection to their own vocations and journeys in leading a Catholic school, and to how they follow in Jesus’ footsteps today. Photo: Supplied/CIWA. A combined pilgrimage co-ordinated by the University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA) and Catholic Institute of Western Australia (CIWA) has provided participants with new opportunities to reflect on t...

By Amer Youhanna A robot equipped with artificial intelligence is seen at the AI Xperience Center in Brussels Feb. 19, 2020. Photo: OSV News/Yves Herman, Reuters. In the previous reflection, I explored Pope Leo XIV's concern that technological progress should never come at the expense of conscience and moral responsibility. The final part of this reflection considers how these same conce...

By Rev Prof Eamon Conway Pope Leo XIV talks at a table with prelates and laypeople on 7 October, 2026, after he opened the weeklong Vatican meeting of presidents of bishops' conferences marking the 10th anniversary of “Amoris Laetitia”. Photo: OSV News/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media. The Assembly addressed Communion for Catholics who are divorced and civilly remarried as one of the sensi...

By Josephine Peterson Pope Leo XIV waves from his popemobile in St Peter's Square at the Vatican during his weekly general audience on 28 October, 2026. Photo: OSV News/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media. Catholics must not live their faith in opposition or "hostility" toward modern culture, Pope Leo XIV said, emphasising that integrating faith and culture is essential to living out the Chri...

Local Whadjak Noongar youth play the didgeridoo during the Welcome to Country for the Aboriginal Sunday Mass, Sunday 18 October at St Mary’s Cathedral. Photo: Eric Odong/Archdiocese of Perth. “Into every culture that God has entered, people have received a call,” Perth Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton told the congregation at the annual Aboriginal Sunday Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral on Sunday 1...

By Rev Prof Eamonn Conway Pope Leo XIV talks at a table with prelates and laypeople on 7 October, 2026, after he opened the weeklong Vatican meeting of presidents of bishops' conferences marking the 10th anniversary of “Amoris Laetitia” Photo: OSV News/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media. In a special two-part report on the anniversary of Amoris Laetitia, University of Notre Dame Rev Professo...

Pope Leo XIV speaks with to Christopher Olah, co-founder of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, at the conclusion of a presentation on the Holy Father’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence," at the Synod Hall at the Vatican on 25 May 2026. Photo: CNS/Lola Gomez. By Amer Youhanna In this second insight o...

Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB, third from left, with Bishops from Oceania at the Presidents of Bishops' Conferences meeting in Paul IV Hall, Rome, marking the 10th anniversary of Amoris Laetitia, are Bishop Stephen Lowe from New Zealand, Bishop Rosario Menezes from Papua New Guinea and Archbishop Ryan Jimenez from Guam. Photo: Archbishop Timothy Costelloe. By Courtney Mares & J...

The letters AI (for "artificial intelligence") are placed on computer motherboard in this illustration taken 23 June, 2023. Photo: OSV News/Dado Ruvic, Reuters. In a special three-part series for The Record, University of Notre Dame Senior Chaplaincy Officer Amer Youhanna writes dialogue begins with genuine attention to the other and challenges us to move beyond oppositional ways of thinkin...

In Australia, parishes are invited to stand alongside communities in Malawi, the focus of Catholic Mission’s 2026 World Mission Month appeal. Photo: Supplied/Catholic Mission. As World Mission Sunday approaches on 18 October 2026, Catholics across Australia are invited to begin their celebrations by joining the universal Church in praying the mission rosary. Celebrated on 18 October this...