Mary and our faith
Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary is one of the things that differentiates Catholics from most other Christian denominations. To...
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Church and the workers
Responding to the “new” question of workers’ rights and organised trade unionism in the 19th century did not come easily...
Giving in faith
Pope John Paul II wrote in his encyclical Ut Unum Sint (1995) that the building of a better world requires...
Breakthrough: Saved by Faith
Many centuries ago, a pope who was trying to build St Peter’s basilica in Rome started selling indulgences – literally...
Salvation for us all
Salvation is the deliverance from sin and its consequences through Jesus Christ and is accessible to us all — regardless...
How the Church embraced Judaism
Prejudices – such as racism, sexism and homophobia, to name but three – die hard, not least those that seem...
Now faiths can work together
When in 1965 the assembled bishops of Vatican II with an overwhelming majority affirmed Nostra Aetate, the Declaration on the...
Upholding values is to protect human rights
Archbishop Denis Hurley worked in South Africa, Oscar Romero in El Salvador, Cesar Chavez in the United States, Kerry Kennedy...
Learning to love the bible
Today, every day around the country, Catholics are engaging scripture in their communities, homes, parishes and education centres — and...
