2+ day, 23+ 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, 35+ min 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, 20+ min ago   (197+ words) A German archbishop touring the US–Mexico border said the massive fortifications dividing El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, remind him of the Berlin Wall. Archbishop Stefan Hesse of Hamburg, who chairs the German bishops’ migration commission, described the…...

5+ day, 47+ min 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, 4+ 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, 4+ 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…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (584+ words) A major relic of St Carlo Acutis is travelling from bustling cities to country towns on a four-month mission intended to draw Australians closer to Christ in the Eucharist. Australia is the 25th nation to receive the first-class major pilgrim relic,…...