Catholic Teaching

by Father Pius Mary Noonan OSB PhD Notre Dame Priory in Tasmania July 28th 2024 Tenth Sunday after Pentecost   Today’s sacred liturgy brings before our eyes the well-known parable of the [...]

by Father Pius Mary Noonan OSB PhD Notre Dame Priory in Tasmania July 21st 2024 Ninth Sunday after Pentecost   Today’s holy gospel brings before our eyes Our Lord’s prophecy of the [...]

by Father Pius Mary Noonan OSB PhD Notre Dame Priory in Tasmania July 14th 2024 Eighth Sunday after Pentecost   In today’s liturgy we are offered a magnificent portrait of the glory of the [...]

by Father Pius Mary Noonan OSB PhD Notre Dame Priory in Tasmania July 7th 2024 Seventh Sunday after Pentecost   Last week, we considered the wonderful gift God has given us in  the Roman [...]

by Father Pius Mary Noonan OSB PhD Notre Dame Priory in Tasmania June 30th 2024 Sixth Sunday after Pentecost   In today’s Gospel we see our blessed Lord feeding several thousand people with [...]

Written by Most Rev. Julian Porteous DD, Archbishop of Hobart Pastoral Letter Published 30th May 2024   “Archbishop Julian Porteous, patron of FLI, released this Pastoral Letter to his [...]

Written by Maria Madise Originally published on Voice of the Family 12 January 2024 Just before Christmas, on 18 December, the Catholic world was shaken by Fiducia supplicans, a declaration of [...]

Written by Carlos Polo August 14, 2023 Original publication on Population Research Institute With PRI’s help, the gender benders were beaten—badly July 29 will go down as a red letter day for [...]

Written by Bernard Toutounji 25th July 2023 Remembering my Parish Priest – Fr Carl Ashton – 1937 to 2023 Early in the morning of Thursday 13 July 2023, after a short time of illness, Fr Carl [...]

“We publish here a further extract from historian Henry Sire’s Phoenix from the Ashes (Kettering OH, Angelico Press, 2015, pp. 93-100).”  Published on Super Flumina Urban VIII is chiefly [...]

Written by Kathy Clubb Sending one’s child to a Catholic school and having them receive a Catholic education are important goals for many Catholic parents, but unfortunately they are often [...]

Written by Michael Baker September 21, 2022 – St Matthew Published on Super Flumina   It is a principle underlying sound philosophy that every creature loves itself.  Every thing [...]

  Written by Kathy Clubb   Although elements of paganism have been creeping into various parishes and dioceses for some time, the blatant idolatry on display during the 2019 Amazon [...]

Written by Andrew Murphy   The Catholic Church’s enduring prohibition of contraception[1] undoubtedly appears absurd to the outsider. In fact, numerous polls show that it even appears absurd [...]

“[T]he first effect of not believing in God [is] that you lose your common sense… “[H]ard-shelled materialists [are] all balanced on the very edge… of belief in almost anything.” G K [...]

Father Pius Mary Noonan’s homily from Gaudete Sunday Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe   Joy, light and peace: such are the dominant themes of today’s Mass. And with reason, for the coming of [...]

Father Pius Mary Noonan’s homily Notre Dame Priory 17th Sunday after Pentecost   175 years ago today in a small and, at that time, very obscure hamlet of the French Alps named La Salette, [...]

Father Pius Mary Noonan’s homily Notre Dame Priory 16th Sunday after Pentecost Holy Name of Mary In today’s epistle we hear St Paul make mention of his captivity and plead with the Ephesians not [...]

Fr Gilbride’s Homily March 21st, 2021 – MHM   Today we begin Passiontide: we have entered the final stretch of Lent before Easter.  The liturgical focus now shifts towards our Lord’s [...]

Written by Kathy Clubb   It is now eighteen months since the release of the infamous Pew Research poll[1] on the Holy Eucharist, a poll which exposed the staggering ignorance of Catholics [...]