3+ day, 11+ 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, 12+ hour 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, 12+ hour ago   (200+ words) Peru’s port city of Callao is preparing a striking welcome for Pope Leo XIV ahead of his November visit: a 45.9-foot-tall statue that city officials say will be the largest monument to the pontiff in the world. Set to overlook…...

4+ day, 11+ hour 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, 12+ hour 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…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1318+ words) On 26 March 1996, seven Trappist monks living in northern Algeria were kidnapped and killed. In 2018, along with 12 other Catholic priests and religious who were murdered between 1994 and 1996 in Algeria’s savage civil war, they were beatified. The Catholic Weekly spoke with Rev…...

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   (765+ words) Last week we talked about the decline in Mass attendance in Australia, and some of the drivers for that. We see the decline and we grieve it. It seems wrong that people are leaving, and we feel like we should…...