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The best in Catholic news from across the Archdiocese of Perth
Pentecost’s roots run deep indeed
I have always been intrigued, a reader asks, by the Holy Spirit coming down on the apostles on the Jewish feast of Pentecost. What exactly was this feast and is there any connection between it and our celebration of the coming of the Holy Spirit?
The Church has what the young need most
It does not appear to be grasped by much of the Church in Australia, including not a few of those in leadership roles within it and its burgeoning bureaucracy, that a key work of the Church must be to do not with money and structures but with families. Instead, it sometimes seems that the Church is viewed by its own members more as an institution or a corporation, much as one would look at a federal government department – only much bigger.
The bitter pill
Not all women are comfortable with the way that the newly approved RU486 offers women the capacity to pharmaceutically self-abort. Anna Krohn and Beth Doherty reflect on some of the darker and less-discussed aspects of the abortion drug’s reality …
Noble man for the darkest time
Abraham Lincoln’s leadership has lessons for Australians convinced they should lead the nation, writes Dr Andrew Kania.
Keeping Good Friday a special day
Australians can be football-made – that’s true – but one of the more interesting events in religious affairs in recent weeks was the public statement by AFL North Melbourne captain Andrew Swallow praising the AFL for not scheduling football matches on Good Friday – interesting because to risk so obviously publicly identifying one’s self as a Christian these days is also to risk inviting ridicule from many quarters.
Father Bartlett a man who saw Jesus in others
Although Perth born priest, Father Kevin Bartlett, was not ordained until he was in his mid-fifties, he spent the last 22 years of his life bringing the love of Christ to isolated communities in the highlands of central Taiwan.
My lesson: the way to share faith is to live it
A convert mum says she couldn’t see the sense in not becoming Catholic. Others helped and inspired her along the way. She takes her faith seriously, and maintains hope for her son …
Tale of a beloved Marian prayer crafted by the hands of love
Is anything known about the origin of the “Hail, Holy Queen” that we say at the end of the Rosary? I have always liked this prayer.
Publican or pharisee? It’s our choice
Others’ failings or ignorance may be real but while we can see their outsides, it’s their hearts that count. Only God sees those.
