Vatican II: does it still matter?
It is time for all us to reconsider the call of John XXIII for “Christian charity”, to work for unity, to engage with the people of our times, says Good...
Reflecting on Quentin Dempster’s “The Right to Die”
In November 2011 the ABC’s “7.30 NSW” program produced a story entitled “The Right to Die”. It was compelling television, including an interview with a well-educated MS sufferer, Loredana Alessio-Mulhall...
Is your Catholic identity being stolen?
“Identity theft is a major crime around the world. In a strangely analogous way, there is concern growing that forces mysterious may even be stealing our Catholic identity. If we...
Keep the promise: make poverty history
Just as we were the power behind the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals, we must be the power that ensures the world achieves them, writes Good Samaritan Sister Marella...
A bit more empathy and a lot less sympathy
The narrative of my disability begins with a single moment. The moment, when my mother realised her weaker and sicker baby was turning over, while her bigger, fatter and seemingly...
Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The devastation of Nagasaki and Hiroshima points beyond the parameters of history to the limitless dimensions of the human heart, writes Good Samaritan Sister Diana Law.
Dialogue: a way of being authentic
As we continue to aspire to the call of the Gospels, to participate in the mission of God, then all the faithful, all those at the table will need to...
Towards an adult Church
“I recall that the Church came to birth amidst the unfolding tensions between, paradoxically, the conservative Peter and the liberal, boundary-pushing Paul. Without a liberal component, life petrifies; without a...
Unpacking the carbon tax
Why should we support a carbon tax? Frances Egan outlines how the proposed tax might work and what it will mean for you.
Hope and the cherry blossom
May our Christian resurrection hope be our way of ‘staying with’ the people of Japan long after the media withdraws their attention, writes Good Samaritan Sister Veronica Hoey.
Harmony Day calls us to be Good Samaritans
As we celebrate Harmony Day, a national initiative to celebrate our cultural diversity, Sister Pauline Coll suggests we look to the parable of the Good Samaritan.