Since their arrival in Western Australia in 1935, the Carmelite nuns in Nedlands have lived a quiet, hidden life devoted to prayer. The Record’s Matthew Biddle spoke to four of the community’s 14 members recently about life in the cloister…

I recently read that some theologians have argued that we can hope no one is in hell and that all will be saved. Is this a reasonable position to hold?

Christ’s death tore the temple veil, but even this side of the Resurrection, Mark Reidy laments, we look around with veiled eyes.

Information is at our fingertips, something we, in our freedom, wield; divorced from the inner “us”, or is it, asks Bernard Toutounji.

Monsignor John Anthony Barden, a beloved priest of the Geraldton diocese, passed away after a long illness on March 7.

A family, a sporting team or a society can all help to build a positive culture, but only when they have belief in the abilities of the individuals they are forming. Rugby, as Dr Andrew Kania writes, is one sport that teaches, by its culture, some of the most important characteristics of true manhood, characteristics that can help to build a thriving society, if we allow them to.

A friend who has a degree in theology recently told me that if we are baptised we are assured of heaven. I didn’t argue with him because he knows a lot more than I do. Is what he says true?

THE PRACTICE of kneeling to receive Holy Communion is making a comeback. The Record recently observed the practices of weekday Mass-goers at St Mary’s Cathedral over several months and discovered that up to 13 per cent of the congregation receive Communion kneeling. Meanwhile, at the only other church in the Perth CBD that offers daily Mass, All Saints’ Chapel, more than 80 per cent o...

Former Bunbury man Peter Castieau made his final profession as a Carmelite monk in Wyoming, USA on March 25. The 26-year-old, who has taken on the name of Br Paul Marie of the Cross, has spent the past six years at the Carmelite monastery in preparation for his final profession. Members of his family and Perth’s Latin Mass chaplain Fr Michael Rowe, who supported and encouraged Br Paul...

The bodily Resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday might appear to be a physical impossibility but, without it, life becomes devoid of any meaning at all. The account of Christ’s Resurrection was not merely figurative, but was so real that it changed the course of history. Easter is not the time for ambivalence or disbelief, but rather the opportunity to define the Christian through his belief, as Dr Andrew Kania writes…