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Passion Sunday
Fr Gilbride’s Homily March 21st, 2021 – MHM Today we begin Passiontide: we have entered the final stretch of Lent before Easter. The liturgical focus now shifts towards our Lord’s impending betrayal, arrest, and suffering. Hence the name for today’s Mass, Passion Sunday, with the word passion coming from the Latin word for suffering. […]
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Academic research describes how professionals self-censor on abortion
Written by Kathy Thompson An Australian academic has released the findings of her doctoral research which shows how doctors, nurses and counsellors routinely hide facts about abortion from their patients. In “Alarmist Gatekeeping – Abortion”, Dr Debbie Garratt distilled the theme of her PhD thesis which examined how and why the narrative of abortion […]
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Eucharistic abuses during COVID show the need for renewed catechesis
Written by Kathy Thompson It is now eighteen months since the release of the infamous Pew Research poll[1] on the Holy Eucharist, a poll which exposed the staggering ignorance of Catholics regarding the Real Presence of Jesus Christ. The poll found that only one-third of Catholics believe that the Eucharist is the Body and Blood […]
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There will be hell to pay
Written by BT Walters I recently took the time to read a master’s thesis written by a priest. It was about ‘structural sin,’ but it read more like something out of the Marxist Handbook. It is a small thesis paper of about 30,000 words which he wrote while studying at a Catholic University. It has […]
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Australia: governance model for the universal Church?
Written by Kathy Thompson An Australian document designed to undermine orthodox Catholicism may soon become the model for governance of the universal Church. The document is being hailed by head of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, Mark Coleridge[1], and is being promulgated in tandem with the Plenary Council. The driving forces behind Australia’s Plenary […]
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Et Verbum caro factum est
Written by BT Walters The most important institution on earth is the Catholic Church. Given the current state of the Catholic Church, there would be people who might disagree with that assertion. Opinions would vary as to what is the most important institution depending on one’s point of view and circumstances. Some would argue […]
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American Satanists abuse religious freedom to demand abortions
Written by Kathy Thompson FLI recently reported that Satanists in Queensland had invoked their ‘right to religious freedom’ when holding a public Black Mass at a community arts venue. That dubious ‘right’, as the article explained, rests on an erroneous definition of freedom of religion which has prevailed since the Enlightenment and which has […]
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Vale Brother Kevin Francis Guthrie
Brother Kevin Guthrie was born in Temora NSW on 20th August 1936, the 5th child of 12 to parents Bartholomew (Ned) and Mary Guthrie. He was raised in a strongly Catholic environment and though an above average student he left school, despite the Principal’s best efforts, before completing his Leaving Certificate and began working […]
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Saint Joseph and the times we live in
Written by Paul Hanrahan We are certainly living in dark times. Despite the amazing life style afforded modern man (especially in the western world) through technology, medical science, education, nutrition, transport etc. and all that these advances provide for our health and comfort, we somehow seemed to have come to this very dark place […]
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From Swaddling Clothes to the Seamless Garment
Written by Kathy Thompson And she brought forth her firstborn son and wrapped him up in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. (Luke 2:7) The virtue traditionally connected with the third Joyful mystery of the Rosary, the Nativity of the Lord, is […]
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