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On 2 March, Hezbollah, the Shia militant group in southern Lebanon attacked northern Israel with drones and rockets to demonstrate their support for Iran. The Israeli Defense Force responded by bombing Beirut and villages across the border.

A NSW parliamentary inquiry into assisted reproduction has put commercial surrogacy in the spotlight, with witnesses clashing over ethics, human rights, and the law.

Adult baptisms are surging across Australia's Catholic dioceses, with some cities more than doubling last year's figures — signalling an unexpected spiritual renewal this Eastertide.

As Xi Jinping demands “unyielding Marxist atheism”, history tells a different story: Christianity has deep, ancient roots in China—long predating Communism and resisting state-controlled “sinicisation”.

Australia’s birth rate has sunk to record lows, raising fears of a demographic winter. Experts warn inaction now risks long-term economic, social, and population decline.

Dr Bernard Quin, an Australian GP, chose service over safety during World War II on Nauru, sacrificing his life to protect lepers and locals, leaving a legacy of faith, ethics, and courage.

From wartime sex slavery to heroic forgiveness, Jan Ruff-O’Herne’s faith-filled life inspires a growing call to recognise her extraordinary holiness and virtues.

A brief survey of the legislative landscape reveals a troubling trajectory, particularly of erosion of the sanctity of life doctrine in our law and professional ethics, but also in the consciences of our political masters and citizens, throughout Australia and beyond; a pervasive “culture of death”.

Australia's first, safest, and most conservative voluntary assisted dying scheme is booming. In Victoria, demand has skyrocketed, and the Labor government plans to loosen safeguards and make it easier for even more people to access services. 

Only a tiny fraction of the millions of rifles owned by Americans are used by mass murderers. Yet politicians and the media demand gun control laws. Similarly, only a tiny fraction of children of divorce turn into rampage killers. Why don’t we demand measures for shoring up crumbling families?

An embryo created more than 30 years ago in an IVF clinic has been born — a world record. Alas, the existence worldwide of possibly 10 million embryos in canisters of frozen nitrogen is an ethical disaster. 

The Federal election next month (3 May) may be the first in Australian history in which both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition identify as Catholics. “Identify” is the operative word. Neither Anthony Albanese nor Peter Dutton is a regular churchgoer.

At this very moment, the most dangerous place for Christians is probably the villages of Bishrampur, Ganeshpur, and Jhanakpur in the land-locked state of Chhattisgarh in central India. The terrors faced by Christians include violence, forced conversions, and social ostracism.

J.D. Vance’s speech to last week’s Munich Security Conference was a masterpiece of MAGA rhetoric. His theme was that “there is a new sheriff in town” who doesn’t give a damn what you stuffed shirts think.

Trump is not delusional. As others have commented, we have to take him seriously, if not literally. What is the point of floating this surreal scheme for Gaza? Trump is forcing the international community to make hard decisions, to be creative.

What had these Democrats been smoking when they assumed that pornography and masturbation were the top issues for young male voters? No wonder they lost. Trump is terribly flawed, but he treated them like men.

Last week, the Australian Catholic University managed to turn every word in its name into an oxymoron. It’s Australian, but neither its staff nor its students believe in a “fair go”. It’s officially Catholic, but students walked out on an eminent speaker who opposed abortion.

It would be a mistake to read too much into Harris’s words, but by exalting abortion as a manifestation of freedom, isn’t she close to endorsing Sartre’s bleakness and despair? A distinctive moral feature of abortion is being alone – radical alienation from both the child and her partner.

Around the world, governments and professional associations are questioning the evidence base for gender medicine. Here's a round-up of the latest developments.

Stanisława Leszczyńska's heroic legacy at Auschwitz is a testament to faith, courage and humanity in the face of unimaginable horrors.