David

The annual St Gerard’s Feast Day Blessing will be live streamed again this year. And this year St Gerard’s feast day falls on a Sunday. 

Thank you to all our subscribers who entered our competition for a chance to win a digital radio. Congratulations to the winner Theresa French from Pittsworth in Queensland.

The purpose of Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, on love in the family, is to describe and evaluate the ‘joy of love’ experienced in family life — for this joy is a powerful proclamation that the gospel is indeed good news for the fractured and questioning family of humanity (1).

The ‘smiling’ pope who lasted only 33 days in the papacy was beatified by Pope Francis on September 4.

All Catholic institutions have been urged to divest from fossil fuels as a way to live out their faith and work against the climate emergency and biodiversity crisis. The call has been made by Archbishop of Glasgow William Nolan, who added, “It will be an embarrassment for any Catholic institution that hasn’t divested.”

From the moment they landed in Australia, the Redemptorists had been asked to open a foundation house in Victoria. However, it wasn’t until 1885 – three years after settling in Singleton, NSW – that Fathers Edmund Vaughan, Thomas O’Farrell and John Stokes made it to the southern capital.

Faith onLine: Almost 30 years ago Majellan introduced Catholic Faithline which included two monthly messages written by former Majellan editors Max Barrett CSsR and Bill Stinson CSsR. Father Stinson, Bishop Paul Bird CSsR and Michael Gilbert CSsR recorded the messages. The family reflections covered many issues ranging from bullying to how to improve your marriage to dealing with stress and loneliness. 

Here’s the thing about living with seven other people: you need to be ruthless with clutter. We accumulate so much stuff so easily that if I don’t get rid of things, we might end up on the 60 Minutes special report on hoarding.

We often underestimate the value of a role model in today’s world. I think this is a mistake. Role models guide and inspire us because, in part, we see underutilised aspects of who we could be, in them, if we aimed high enough and fought tooth and nail to protect our dreams at all costs.