The Catholic Weekly

11/10/2025

In the 10 years since St Gabriel’s was twinned with St Mary MacKillop Parish, parishioners have been anticipating the merger. In June 2025, we celebrated St Gabriel’s homecoming following our amalgamation together.

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10/10/2025

In Catholic education, teaching is not just a job or a career. It is a vocation, a sacred calling to participate in the mission of the church and to help shape the hearts and minds of young people.

In Catholic education, teaching is not just a job or a career. It is a vocation, a sacred calling to participate in the mission of the church and to help shape the hearts and minds of young people.

10/10/2025

Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s new book, Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and the Constitution, is a moving, but never mawkish, reflection on the importance of family, marriage, and place in shaping a life of public consequence.

10/10/2025

St Paul’s letter to the Galatians is only six chapters long, but it deals with some of the great questions of our faith. Today we’ll be asking questions about how St Paul helps us understand how to be in right relationship with God. With Sr Michele Connolly RSJ

St Paul’s letter to the Galatians is only six chapters long, but it deals with some of the great questions of our faith. Today we’ll be asking questions about how St Paul helps us understand how to be in right relationship with God. With Sr Michele Connolly RSJ

10/10/2025

I know that Pope Leo XIV is an Augustinian, but I know little about the order. Can you tell me something about it which might help me understand the background and spirituality of this pope?

10/10/2025

The apostolic exhortation Dilexi Te (“I Have Loved You”) on the church’s love for the poor, “is Pope Leo’s document. It is the magisterium of the church,” although Pope Leo himself wrote that it was begun by Pope Francis, said Cardinal Michael Czerny.

09/10/2025

The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem welcomed "with joy" the announcement of an initial agreement between Hamas and Israel in an 9 October statement, but also stressed the "absolute urgency" for the "immediate" and "unconditional" entry of humanitarian relief and sufficient aid into Gaza.

09/10/2025

More than 90,000 pilgrims flocked in May 2025 to the Basilica of the Annunciation of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Alba de Tormes, where the remains of St Teresa of Avila were displayed for veneration.

The previous August, her tomb in northwestern Spain had been reopened for the first time in a century for an in-depth study of her relics.

Both the inquiry and the crowds indicate widespread devotion to and enduring fascination with one of Spain’s most famous saints, the foundress of the Order of Discalced Carmelites whose feast day is 15 October.

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09/10/2025

Viewers allergic to cats, whether physically or by temperament, should steer clear of the colourful but cutesy musical fantasy Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie (Universal).

So, too, should cynics, curmudgeons and anyone given to even occasional grumpiness.

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09/10/2025

This is the edited text of the Homily for Mass at the ARC Conference, Tuesday of the 6th Week in Ordinary Time, St Margaret’s and All Saints London, 18 February 2025 (Feast of Blessed Fra Angelico).

09/10/2025

People query why they should make the effort to attend Mass when there are so many other pressing demands upon our time, yet upon reflection, that attitude nevertheless loses sight of the reality at hand.

08/10/2025

Catholics (and before that, ancient Jews) have always cherished and venerated physical relics of their holy dead, even – or especially – when the rest of the world found that practice creepy or dangerous or just kind of gross.