IF THE CATHOLIC Church held an international cycling competition between members of the clergy, Fra Oscar Aguilera OSM would probably win. The 40-year-old priest is a well-regarded cyclist in Perth, who has competed in a number of large scale races, and even has several sponsors. But winning races isn’t why Fra Oscar cycles. He says his priestly ministry and his passion for cycling...

Beloved Perth priest Fr Eugene McGrath didn’t want to talk about himself when the The Record’s Mark Reidy got in touch. Instead, he talked about the love of God and the witness his parents and siblings had been to him.

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.

Is a person guilty of sin who has unchaste nightmares or dreams and wakes up realising what just went through their mind in a dream?

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.

Mark Reidy contemplates as his son turns 12, the same age Jake was when Mark met him on the street eight years ago.

Sr Teresa My Nguyen, a Dominican Superior at Mai Am Hoa Hong Orphanage in Vietnam shares her vocation story.

Member of the Order of Australia, Mary Ann Yeats has retired from the District Court, but her passion for Aboriginal justice remains as strong as ever. She discusses her career and the impact of her lifelong faith with Mark Reidy.

With the two bigest sporting events taking place in Brazil over the next two years, Caritas is calling on FIFA and the International Olympic Committee to protect the poor from being evicted from their homes in the slums of Rio de Janeiro.

Lighten up. Find some pleasure. Don’t be such a wet-blanket. In whose writings will you find these timeless tidbits of advice? Those attentive to his actual work, will find that Thomas Aquinas wanted to help people live a considered, holy life, writes Dr Andrew Kania, not a miserable one.