At Christmas we celebrate of one of our faith’s core beliefs - the Incarnation, writes CRA President Fr Peter Jones OSA. God has intimately shared life with us in Christ by taking on the fullness of our humanity. Mary, Mother of Christ, witnesses to the fullest expression of Christian discipleship with her welcoming of Christ in her person and her heart.  

To meet God we must reach Him where he is; we need to lower ourselves, to make ourselves small, like Jesus did by coming to birth in a stable, says Pope Francis. 

Who is going to heaven? Is celibacy ever a good idea? Is Scripture a world for women? Theologian and musician Verbum Dei Sister, Dr Maeve Heaney, posed these questions in her latest book ‘Suspended God: Music and a Theology of Doubt’, reports The Catholic Leader.

In the most significant change in the society’s 205-year-history, the Champagnat Marist mission is charting a new course in the Oceania Region, reports The Catholic Weekly.

Mercy Health has announced it will join with Our Lady Aged Care Centre to open and operate a new aged care home adjacent to Our Lady of Lebanon Co-Cathedral, Harris Park in western Sydney, to be known as Our Lady Mercy Place Harris Park.