Lent is the time, Pope Francis has said, “to proclaim that God alone is Lord, to drop the pretence of being self-sufficient and the need to put ourselves at the centre of things, to be the top of the class, to think that by our own abilities we can succeed in life and transform the world around us.”

Catholic school students from across Australia have contributed to a video they hope will influence other young people to act and help eradicate forced labour from the production of chocolate, clothing and technology.

Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych, spoke with a small group of reporters in Rome by Zoom on 20 February from Kyiv, a city he has left only a couple of times and only for a few days in the past year.

In launching a new program of Liturgical Formation and Renewal this week, Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB says it is important the Perth Catholic community reflect on what it means to be a Christ-centred Church that is prayerful and Eucharistic.

Over the next four weeks, video messages highlighting an understanding of Sacramentality, Why we Gather to celebrate Liturgy, Signs and Symbols in the Liturgy and What is Liturgy, will be shown in our parish communities.

Facing the distressing situation in Syria and Turkey, Catholic Mission is taking action to support missionaries who are providing vital emergency support and pastoral care in this time of suffering.

Speaking during the quadrennial assembly of the Federation of Catholic Bishops Conferences of Oceania in Fiji last week, the bishops expressed deep sadness at the loss of life and the damage from which it will take years to recover.

Exhorting South Sudanese Christians to be the “salt of the earth” and the “light of the world,” as the day’s Gospel reading called them to be, Pope Francis told the people, “This country, so beautiful yet ravaged by violence, needs the light that each one of you has, or better, the light that each one of you is.”

More than 12,000 people have been killed in this week’s earthquake in Türkiye-Syria Earthquake, with thousands more injured or trapped in the rubble.

“Jesus ‘reaches out’ to tell us that God’s mercy is for everyone,” Pope Francis has said in his homily during Mass in St Peter’s Basilica speaking on Sunday 22 January, the church’s celebration of Sunday of the Word of God.

By Justin McLellan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Ncxkv-w8M Pope Francis told young people to always "look to the horizon" and open their hearts to other peoples and cultures. In a video message to the 400,000 participants registered for World Youth Day 2023, Pope Francis encouraged young people not to "put up walls" that close them in but to "thirst for the horizon" that makes t...