09/07/2024
Dear Fr Flader, a nearby parish celebrates a Mass on Saturday morning as the vigil Mass for Sunday. Is this permitted?
Also, if I attend a wedding Mass on Saturday afternoon, does this fulfil my obligation to attend Mass on Sunday?
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09/07/2024
Catholics in South-Western Sydney have taken their religious “virtues” to the sporting field as parish took on parish at the inaugural Virtus Games.
09/07/2024
St Augustine Zhao Rong and companions, pray for us.
09/07/2024
Sydney Catholic Schools alumnus Josh Beattie has rapidly risen from netball first-timer to national prospect, but is just “seeing where it goes."
09/07/2024
Australians are the highest per capita users of overseas surrogates. We can do better for poor women overseas than suggesting they lift themselves out of poverty by being surrogates for wealthy, Australian couples, writes Monica Doumit.
08/07/2024
The Catholic world has taken notice of the Eucharistic revival in Sydney!
08/07/2024
Leading religious freedom scholar Professor Helen Alvaré will deliver this year’s Tim Fischer Oration in Canberra next month.
The visit of this courageous advocate for conscience protections comes in the wake of the Calvary Hospital takeover and increasing pressures on religious freedom in Australia.
https://bit.ly/4cyvp5C
Photo: Catholicphilly.com
08/07/2024
Br Matthew Timonera from the Capuchin Friars was ordained into the diaconate at St Fiacre’s Church in Leichhardt on 28 June. In keeping with his Franciscan charism, he hopes to bring his service at the altar and to the poor together.
https://bit.ly/3VWFCSh
08/07/2024
There is no way out of the church and world’s conflict over sexual ethics—only a way through, according to George Mason University’s Helen Alvaré, who will deliver the 2024 Tim Fischer Oration next month.
Photo: catholicvoice.org
08/07/2024
The “unfinished business” of constitutional recognition of First Nations peoples will now likely fall to the next generation, said Fr Frank Brennan SJ at a Mass in Sydney to celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sunday.
07/07/2024
Pope Francis began his papacy with the patroness of the Eternal City when announced as pope in 2013, which has caused many to ask—who is she?
07/07/2024
T-minus 4 days before these lovely gents are ordained into the priesthood!
Let's make sure to keep them in our prayers.
07/07/2024
A true apostle, a true leader in the church, is one who serves. The faithful do not need to be ordained priests or enter consecrated life or elevated to the episcopacy in order to live the characteristics of an apostle, writes Fr Eliah Abboud.
A true apostle, a true leader in the church, is one who serves. One need not be a priest, religious or consecrated to live a Christ-like life,
06/07/2024
Genius' have to practice! Have a blessed Sunday everyone!
06/07/2024
St Maria Goretti, pray for us.
06/07/2024
Sydney Catholic Schools’ “reverse inclusion” model goes from strength to strength, with numbers doubling in 2024 for the annual wheelchair basketball gala day.
Sydney Catholic Schools’ “reverse inclusion” model goes from strength to strength, with numbers doubling in 2024 for the annual wheelchair basketball gala day
05/07/2024
This spring Deacon Tom Hosty and his son Liam made history, becoming the first father and son to both be deacons at the same time in the 190-year history of the Catholic Church in central and southern Indiana.
Witness a historic moment in the Catholic Church as father and son, Deacon Liam and Deacon Tom Hosty, are ordained as deacons together.
05/07/2024
After five months, the ex-engineer has finally completed building a brand-new confessional for parishioners to discover the “truth and mercy” of God’s love.
Here are some photos of Daniel's handiwork.
05/07/2024
Australia tends to forget its cultural and literary figures, and our greatest Catholic novelist Christopher Koch is no different.
The tenth anniversary of his death was passed over in silence last September—but Koch remains one of our great storytellers and subtle chroniclers of Western Christianity’s predicament, writes Lucas Smith.
05/07/2024
Jubilee 2025 has Rome in a flurry of construction—not just on the long-awaited metro Line C to accommodate pilgrims, but on promotional materials, hymns and logos for the year itself.
Like the subway line, George Weigel wonders whether any of this activity will eventually get us to where we need to go—to Christ.
05/07/2024
The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage continues its journey throughout many parts of the United States. According to Bishop James Conley from the Diocese of Lincoln, it is leaving a lasting impact.
05/07/2024
St Anthony Maria Zaccaria, pray for us.
04/07/2024
A failure of process, a shift in the nation’s temper, a lack of reliable information and the city-regions divide were among factors contributing to the defeat of the Voice to Parliament referendum, leading Yes proponents said at the launch of two new books at the Australian Catholic University on 2 July.
https://bit.ly/4cphZZN
04/07/2024
Maree believes her life would have spiralled down this dangerous trajectory, if not for a chance meeting with a young man studying to be a priest.
“He invited me to a Youth Rally. It was a Catholic event. It was at Manly Oval. Thousands of kids there. And I remember the lay preacher saying something like, ‘All you have to do is cry out for God to save you for help,’” she said.
“And so, I did!”
https://bit.ly/3zw0uZm
04/07/2024
In the wake of the failed Referendum on the Voice to Parliament, Australians are left with uncomfortable questions about our willingness to confront the reality of Indigenous dispossession, writes Fr Peter Smith.
https://bit.ly/3XKSE88
04/07/2024
A brand-new confessional is open for business in St Catherine’s Gymea, built by the parish’s very own seminarian, Daniel O’Kelly.
04/07/2024
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04/07/2024
Fr Flader, I understand many women hurt by abortion are angry about a recent US Supreme Court decision that allows the sale of a drug that causes an abortion. Can you tell me more about it?
04/07/2024
Two Ukrainian priests were released from Russian captivity on 27 June as part of a ten-prisoner exchange. They were kidnapped in November 2022 by Putin's troops and imprisoned in Russia.
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