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WA election: Opposition Leader Zak Kirkup blocks media from questioning candidate ahead of WA election FriFriday 29 updated FriFriday 29 JanJanuary 2021 at 12:20pm Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Watch Share Print text only Cancel WA Opposition Leader Zak Kirkup has prevented the media from questioning one of his candidates about her views on homosexuality at a press conference, just a day after another candidate was forced to res...

It will be a reminder that after 55 years, Dei Verbum-- the document on Divine Revelation that the Second Vatican Council issued in November 1965 -- remains alive and well! But even more so, that the Sacred Scriptures are still alive, even after thousands of years. Thats what most Catholic parishes around the world will testify to this weekend when they celebrate "Sunday of the Word of God". Those of us in Australia, currently on summer holidays, will do so on February 7. Pope Francis fittin...

2020--2021 The Biblical Year of the Pauline Family with the theme “That the Word of the Lord may speed on,” was launched by the Pauline Family, Goa along with the Diocesan Centre for Biblical Apostolate on November 26. The inaugural Mass by Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao was televised on CCRTV on 26 November at 7.00 a.m. Announcing the Pauline Biblical Year in January 2020, the Major Superiors of the Pauline Family in Rome said that the common objective of the year-long celebration of the B...

A woman reads the Bible in St. Ignatius, Guyana, in this 2019 file photo. On Jan. 24 the pope will celebrate Mass marking Sunday of the Word of God and will present Bibles to a variety of Catholics, including a professional soccer player, a physician and a student. (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey) Jan. 21, 2021 Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY -- At his celebration of Mass for Sunday of the Word of God Jan. 24, Pope Francis will present a Bible to a professional soccer player, a woman from Pakist...

Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I am deciding to repeat and amplify the warning of the FBI that Trump’s violent cult of supporters including heavily armed illegal militia groups, the White Supremacist groups including Klansmen, Neo-Confederates, Neo-Nazis, Racist Skinheads, Militant Christian Theocrats, QAnon Conspiracy Theorists, and a host of other militant groups and individuals. Members of these groups include elected members of the Senate and Congress, elected members of various st...

  In celebration of the feast, the Roman Catholic Church, which dedicates the month of January to the Holy Name of Jesus, encourages the faithful to offer novena prayers, to visit the Adoration Chapel, and to recite the Litany of the Most Holy Name of Jesus.     Church leaders said. the Feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus serves as “a reminder of the countless blessings that we continue to receive from the Holy Redeemer every day of our lives. We should invoke the name of Jesus with confi...

  Feast masses will be offered in several Catholic churches in many parts of the world in honor of the well-loved priest and theologian.      Born in Kanty, Poland in the year 1390, St. John dedicated his life propagating the Word of God and converting many to the faith. He was a respected and distinguished professor of the Sacred Scriptures at the University of Krakow in Poland, where he also graduated. In his biographies, St. John was described as having a good sense of humor and ...

Preface The ministry entrusted to the bishop is a service of unity both within his diocese and of unity between the local church and the universal church. That ministry therefore has special significance in the search for the unity of all Christ’s followers. The bishop’s responsibility for promoting Christian unity is clearly affirmed in the Code of Canon Law of the Latin Church among the tasks of his pastoral office: “He is to act with humanity and charity toward the brothers and sisters...