There is a movement gathering momentum throughout western society determined to draw attention and deliver hope to the increasing number of children facing the world without the loving guidance of a father. The devastating effects of fatherlessness are powerfully captured in a multi-award winning film to be presented in Perth on June 29. Absent, produced by US Director Justin Hunt, is a ...

The US United Steelworkers Union, with headquarters based in the heart of the US rustbelt in Pittsburgh, is estimated to have approximately 860,000 members across a range of manufacturing industries in Canada and the US, making it the single largest trade union in North America. On October 27, 2009 the Union announced it had reached an agreement with the Mondragon International SA. Editor Peter Rosengren comments on this in his Editorial …

Perth priest Fr Chris Webb has to have one of the more remarkable stories of any Catholic priest in the country. His is a story of high-living, criminal charges that could have led to jail and a life-changing conversion that led him to the Catholic priesthood, reports Mark Reidy

There are some subjects that are so sensitive, so important, they should never be joked about under any circumstances at all …

After a billion dollars of subsidies in Australian taxpayer funds have flowed into the ongoing effort to sustain Ford Australia in the last 10 years, the company has announced, as almost everyone knows, that it will cease production of its motor vehicles in Australia by 2016. For the estimated 1,200 workers who will lose their jobs at the Geelong engine factory and Broadmeadows vehicle assembly facility, and the hundreds or thousands more in dependant industries, the news is crushing.

It was prophesied that France would be ruined by a woman and restored by a virgin from the borders of Lorraine … So begins the legendary story of Joan of Arc, patron saint of France, protector of soldiers, a symbol of hope and courage, and patron of The Record, writes Juanita Shepherd.

I was recently invited to a charismatic prayer meeting and, among other things, saw people praying in tongues. I found it very strange and was wondering what to make of it. Does the Church approve of this?

The Catholic Church delegation to the United Nations cops constant criticism and characterisation as fundamentalist and radical but its point man is not disheartened, reports Fiona Basile …

A new Pope has repeatedly made his preference of a Church for the poor clear. Yet there’s no denying the Church also controls some huge sums of money …

It’s time to admit that after 27 years of effort my career in the kitchen has been less than spectacular. But there’s a lesson in that …