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Pray for St Mary's: Bathersby
 Brisbane Archbishop John Bathersby says he is praying for St Mary's parish and has called on the whole archdiocese to pray for the parish. [More]
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US bishops slam House Speaker
 American bishops have accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic, of misrepresenting the Church's longstanding opposition to abortion and of twisting Church teachings.
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Young woman crawled to Mass
 Mozambican nuns have obtained a wheelchair for a disabled young African woman who crawled four kilometres to Mass every Sunday despite not having any legs. [More]
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Orissa violence continues
 More people have been killed in violence against Christians in the Indian state of Orissa while India's bishops have announced a day of prayer and fasting for peace. [More]
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Feature- Biden's dark side deal
 It would be better for Joe Biden if he weren’t Catholic and didn’t know better. But he is and he does. Some Catholics have made a deal with the dark side, and have become agents of the destruction and despair that follow in abortion’s wake. But that’s not the story of our Church. - National Catholic Register [More]
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Feature - Truancy reform "lazy"
 The recent policy announcement of the Rudd government to reduce welfare payments to parents whose children truant from school reflects a concern with a significant issue, but completely misses the mark in how to address it. This Government initiative is lazy policy; is punitive and has behind it the assumption that in low socio-economic areas, the family is to blame. - Brian Burgess, abc.net.au [More]
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Opinion - True religion a source of unity not fundamentalism
 Does religion cause wars? Some people today would give a resounding ‘yes' to that question saying if we are ever to have peace in the world then we need to get rid of religion. Certainly zealous atheists like Richard Dawkins point to the fundamentalist attitudes of religions that brook no opposition and seem to be unreasonable in their outlook and demands on their followers. - Fr Gary Walker, St Columban's Mission Society [More]
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Opinion - Slow release truth of the cross
 We too, like Al-Qaeda, had our own period of history wherein we believed that error had no rights and that violence and killing could be justified in God's name. Today, happily, within all the Christian churches, that is becoming harder to justify, irrespective as to whether that killing is abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, or pre-emptive war. - Fr Ron Rolheiser, ronrolheiser.com [More]
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