3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (229+ words) This is the edited text of the Homily for Mass on Monday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time (Year 2) at the Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia Retreat, Motherhouse Nashville Tn., 20 July 2026. It’s one of the most iconic lines in cinematic…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1025+ words) In our own time, not only in Australia but across the West, we see growing division, distrust, and distress among peoples. Outbreaks of violence in London and Belfast following the death of Henry Nowak in 2025 are only two visible signs…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (231+ words) A university which President Donald Trump has described as “anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, and anti-America” seems an unlikely place for a new springtime for Catholicism. But it appears that this is happening at Harvard University, the oldest and most prestigious in the…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (473+ words) Applications for the Archdiocese’s next Called and Gifted intake close this week. Every baptised Catholic has been given a gift by the Holy Spirit and it was never meant for them alone. That conviction has shaped nearly three decades of…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (601+ words) Pope Leo XIV returned 7 September to the Marian shrine of Our Lady of Good Counsel, where he asked the Virgin Mary for aid to bring God’s word to light through “courageous and wise decisions.” The pope traveled to Genazzano, a…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (196+ words) Chorbishop Sharbel Maroun – pastor of St Maron in Minneapolis, a Maronite Catholic Church – has been named archbishop-elect of the Maronite Archeparchy of Damascus in Syria, according to a Vatican announcement 28 August. He succeeds Archbishop Samir Nassar, head of the Maronite…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (464+ words) For the growing number of Sydneysiders knocking on the door of the Catholic church, the RCIA coordinator is the first human face they meet and can also be the reason they stay. That conviction was at the heart of an…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (361+ words) A full to-do list? No time to write a homily? HomilyWriterAI has everything a busy priest or deacon needs: Scripture, Church Fathers, Catholic commentaries, and magisterial sources. This website says that it was created for priests “who need more time…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (592+ words) What that man really wanted, quietly and for a very long time, was a child. “I think I probably knew I wanted children when I was 16,” David says. “But around the age of 35, I believed that it was probably a…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (455+ words) The Catholic Weekly has won Best Column at the 2026 Australasian Catholic Press Association Awards for a selection of work by former weekly columnist Monica Doumit. The winning entry comprised three columns: ‘Celebrating women as women,’ reflecting on the distinctive gifts…...