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The best in Catholic news from across the Archdiocese of Perth
Love learned in the desert
Where did the 40 day fast come from? If not for a grammatical error, we might have been fasting for only 40 hours, but that would be missing the point, Mark Reidy discovers.
Be my (eventual) Valentine
Alicen sent Shareen a Valentine but for a long time she did not see it. When she did, she ignored it, but the will of God has its own way of working out, reports Joanne Shepherd …
The growing ageing crisis
Our society and workforce are ageing, but as a community we have not adequately prepared for it, writes Sheila Cummins.
We can be people who make the world of difference
The work of Caritas Australia across the globe can only happen because of those who generously donate to Project Compassion, writes Jack de Groot.
Does youth ministry make sense?
Another day, another study. Young people, researchers from the US Evangelical Barna Group say, are walking away from church; that’s if they were ever really there to begin with. So what else is new?
While brand-Catholic private schools might be full of beaming young faces, the pews of churches - where the source and summit of Catholic life happens - are nearly bereft of people under 60.
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Church hope lies in young
Addressing attendees at the US Catholic Campus Ministry Association’s national convention on January 10, 2013, Philadelphian Archbishop Charles Chaput OFM highlighted the need to evangelise youth who often lack moral vocabulary and literacy.
Women religious take to flight
By Peggy Weber
They come from California, Delaware, Pennsylvania and India.
One is a nurse; another was an assistant manager at a Walgreen's. They have different life experiences and span several decades in age.
However, the four newest members of the Visitation Monastery in Tyringham have one thing in common: They all feel drawn to the life of a cloistered nun.
Their calling --...
Rights in want of true justice
People have a natural sense of justice. Forty years after Roe v Wade, it’s time to correct its distortion says Bishop Edward Burns.
Sea shepherds who save souls
Their mission-ground floats on the heady waterways of the world, a powerhouse of global tourism and trade, but the pastors at Florida’s ports are more concerned for the long-serving and often lonely souls within, writes Tom Tracy.
Care Bears gospel makes for misery
The contrived and empty religious experience of her youth makes Mariette Ulrich yearn for a sincere and true faith.
