New information can help us to better understand Benedict’s decision.
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Decades after it was first proposed, the government is looking to set up an independent commission to review wrongful convictions
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The first year of the war concludes with the Holy Father remaining absent from Ukraine, while President Joe Biden and a parade of other international political leaders were present.
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Australia is predicting a nationwide shortage of approximately 11,000 family doctors by 2032
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Bishop Leo’s ascendancy from the Vatican diplomatic corps to archbishop of Toronto isn’t without precedent.
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Amidst all the designs that define a cityscape, the harbour landmark stands out as singular
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Deported a year ago as a threat to public health, the tennis star was feted upon his return to the Australian Open
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What was present last week on College Street in Australia was a dramatic public witness of the cross of Christ not in life, but in death.
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Cardinal Pell was buried with the honours of the church. And one of the highest honours that a corrupt state offers is the incarceration of the innocent
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In the heat of a summer Sydney morning, a singular funeral marked the end of a singular life.
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As Cardinal Pell, Bishop Bätzing and others would testify from different perspectives, papal interview controversies are not rare, but rarely corrected.
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Two prominent American priests recently made important statements that indicate an attempt to shift the Catholic discussion about homosexuality.
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St. Mary’s Cathedral was packed for midday Mass offered by Archbishop Timothy Costelloe of Perth, president of the Australian bishops’ conference. An evening Mass was offered by Archbishop Charles Balvo, apostolic nuncio in Australia.
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Cardinal Robert McElroy’s comments last week, arguing the synod is the correct place to overturn core Catholic teachings, have spotlighted how the Synod on Synodality’s leaders are themselves manipulating the process in pursuit of this same objective.
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Tedium sets in quickly. No slight was too trivial to be remembered, resented and recorded by the prince
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The friendly gathering that included Cardinals George Pell and Joseph Zen in the wake of Pope Benedict’s XVI’s funeral is a treasured memory.
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Jettisoning the distinction between ‘orientation and activity’ means the end of chastity as a virtue to be strived for — or implies that ‘the LBGT community’ is not capable of chastity and should therefore be preached a lesser Gospel.
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Collaborating with the cardinal at World Youth Day in Sydney was a high point of our relationship, but equally significant was his inspiring witness of courage — and encouragement to others — in the face of grave setbacks.
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