Though Nicaea is a ruin, its Creed stands and unites Christians, pope says
By Cindy Wooden, CNS – Although the ancient city of Nicaea lies in ruins and the geographic centre of Christianity...
Church History
Pope Issues Apostolic Letter on the Creed, Marking Anniversary of Nicaea
By Cindy Wooden, CNS – When Christians recite the Creed, it should prompt an examination of conscience about what they...
Constantine, the Catholic Church and the Myth of a Man-Made Faith
By Jason Scott – One of the strangest and most common attacks on the Catholic Church is the claim that...
The Day a Saint Shoved Me
In 1965, Michael Shackleton was a priest and private secretary to Cardinal Owen McCann. As we enter the year of...
Schoenstatt Shrine Golden Jubilee – Homily by Fr Michael Hagan ISch
It is a great joy that we are gathered here today at the Bedfordview Shrine. I am sure that the...
Guy Fawkes and the Catholic Reactionary Plot
By Jason Scott – Guy Fawkes, caught beneath London’s Parliament with enough explosives to destroy the building and everyone in...
Recognition of St Newman is ecumenical celebration, leaders say
By Cindy Wooden, CNS – Pope Leo XIV’s recognition of St. John Henry Newman as a “doctor of the church”...
From Our Vaults 30 Years Ago: October 1, 1995
SA’s first (and only) papal Mass Pope John Paul II made his long-awaited first visit to South Africa, culminating in...
The Church’s 1955 fight to save Catholic schools
Seventy years ago, the Catholic Church’s confrontation with the apartheid regime took root — starting not in the streets but...
