Faith

The door of faith is open

Thursday 18 October 2012

WITH impeccable timing, the Holy Father has provided the antidote to this doubt by proclaiming the Year of Faith. In his apostolic letter Porta Fidei (Door of Faith), Pope Benedict XVI reminds us that God has opened the door of faith for all of us, no matter the season of life in which we are journeying.

Building interfaith friendships

Thursday 10 March 2011

CulturED Café kicked off the year on Thursday 24 February when 60 young people gathered for dinner and drinks in East Melbourne.

ACU appoints 2011 Faith and Justice Ambassadors

Monday 24 January 2011

Bachelor of Arts student, Gemma Green, has been elected into the role of Faith and Justice Ambassador at Australian Catholic University's (ACU) Melbourne Campus for 2011.

Religious freedom: what it is, and what it is not

Wednesday 8 December 2010
By Dr M. A. Casey

Many people find the idea of religious freedom confusing and even worrying. As Cardinal George Pell highlighted in Quadrant this year (January-February 2010), this includes the Australian Human Rights Commission, which has spent two years now puzzling over whether religious freedom is even ‘compatible’ with human rights to begin with.

Cardinal Napier to attend Geelong Faith Festival

Kairos: Volume 21, Issue 21

By Justin Orbien

Cardinal Wilfrid Napier of Durban, South Africa, will be the special guest at the Geelong Deanery Advent Faith Festival, the final faith festival of the year, which begins on 25 November and runs until 28 November.

Call and Response: An introduction to the Catholic faith

Monday 20 September 2010
 
The Catholic Enquiry Centre has launched a new resource for people searching, those who are exploring the Catholic faith for the first time, or long standing Catholics interested in finding more about the faith of their childhood.

Faith Festival lights up Diamond Valley

Kairos: Volume 21, Issue 10

Despite chilly conditions, over 600 people participated in a Mass and Fiesta at St Francis of Assisi Mill Park on Sunday 30 May.

Musical call to faith

Kairos: Volume 21, Issue 09

Music is a universal language and plays a central role in our lives whether we realise it or not. It speaks to us without ever referring to us by name, and we may even feel a sense of belonging to it in some way. Music influences different people in different ways. It inspires some of us to attempt to bridge the connection between our everyday lives and our relationship with God.

Faith Under Fire

Tuesday 11 May 2010

On April 29 the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released its annual report. Along with an overview of the violation of human rights in many countries when it comes to freedom of worship the report also contained the 2010 recommendations about the nations the commission thinks should be named as “countries of particular concern,” or CPCs

Forward in Faith

Kairos: Volume 21, Issue 07

Permanent departure or a pathway home? Whichever way you look at it, Pope Benedict XVI’s invitation to disaffected Anglicans to join the Catholic Church continues to cause a stir.