The first Catholic missionary party faced huge problems in the Swan River Colony, not the least of which was the temperamental personality of Bishop Brady. Among other problems: great poverty and lack of resources to support clergy and religious, and poorly planned missions far away…

It will likely remain a mystery whether the skilled tailors and embroiderers responsible for a set of vestments brought out of archdiocesan archives last week could have ever imagined they would end up at what was then the very end of the earth.

Paradoxically, the line between great ability and disability – as we think of them – can be very fine. Both can come together…

Nothing could have better illustrated in Australia Pope Francis’ call for Catholics and Christians to focus their energy more on the new evangelisation than last week’s comments by stellar Australian Rules footballer Gary Ablett as he won football’s highest honour, the Brownlow Medal, for the second time, wrotes the Editor in this weeks Editorial.

Tattooist Stuart Randell offers more than mere designs of skulls, dragons and other typical bikie-fare. Since a conversion and through the friendly approach of a Jesuit parish priest, the Fremantle businessman is on a mission: inking up for God…

Indulgences seem odd to the 21st century mind. In fact, they evolved naturally out of the Church’s reflection on itself and Christ and are still important today, writes Mark Reidy…

In my Bible, in Chapter 19 of St Matthew’s Gospel, it says that whoever divorces his wife, except in the case of adultery, and marries another, commits adultery. Does this mean that adultery is a ground for divorce and remarriage?

It is easier to be Catholic in Dubai than it is in an increasingly materialist Australia, Christine dos Santos tells Debbie Warrier. She is doing her bit at Santa Clara, Bentley, to help young Catholics know they are not alone.

The singer thought she was, like, totally making history by being deliberately obscene. Sadly, she’s likely headed for its dustbin…

Bishop Bill Brennan was one of the most individual and interesting Catholic bishops of his generation, with an influence far beyond Wilcannia-Forbes and Wagga Wagga.