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Five Vinnies shops robbed in eight days
 Thieves have robbed five St Vincent de Paul shops in Perth in the past eight days, leaving a trail of destruction behind them. [More]
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Hunter Valley reaps overseas priest harvest
 Fathers Albert D'Souza and Maurice Mascarenhas, the first two of eight overseas priests recruited for Maitland-Newcastle diocese, have arrived in the Hunter Valley from India as part of the diocese's Harvest Initiative. [More]
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Caritas Australia calls on government to intervene
 The Australian government "needs to act decisively to bring about a cessation of hostilities in Gaza," Caritas Australia CEO, Jack de Groot said, after an Israeli missile destroyed a Caritas Jerusalem clinic in Gaza. [More]
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Excommunicate drug traffickers: Bertone suggests
 Leaving on a visit to Mexico, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone has suggested excommunication as a punishment for drug traffickers. [More]
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Catholic couple refuse to abort siamese twins
 A British Catholic woman, who is pregnant with rare dicephalous twins, and her husband have refused to contemplate an abortion despite medical advice to do so. [More]
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Like father, like son in the priesthood
 In possibly the first such event in Britain since Pope Gregory the Great imposed mandatory priestly celibacy in the Latin Church, a British man, Dominic Cosslett, has been ordained a Catholic priest - like his father, Ron. [More]
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Feature - Priest devoted to church and the punt
 Before World War II, it was the policy of the Catholic Church to invite priests from Ireland to manage parishes throughout Australia. Many were colourful men who had a fearless desire to succeed after their long journey to Australia but none more so than Father John O'Brien, who took over the parish of St Aloysius in Caulfield. - Patrick Bartley, The Age
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Feature - Lessons of life from a coffin
 Some priests consider that the best sermon they will preach is the one they give when they are lying, dead, in their coffin before the altar of the parish church. A coffin poses ultimate questions: What's life all about? Why are we here? What does it all mean? Like a good sermon, a coffin asks questions without easy answers; you have to answer its questions for yourself. - Fr Edmund Campion [More]
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Opinion - Stop the Gaza carnage
 The bombing and invasion of Gaza should stop now. It is immoral and impractical; the indiscriminate wounding of children and civilians makes the heart sick. And as is often the case, here is bloodshed and mayhem funded and aided by the United States. Joining my voice to those of friends around the world, I say: Stop the killings, end the occupation and pursue nonviolent methods of dialogue and cooperation toward a just, peaceful co-existence. - Fr John Dear, National Catholic Reporter
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