Catholic Outlook
  • Around Australia
    A reflection on National Child Protection Week and Safeguarding Sunday
  • Bishop Vincent
    Bishop Vincent’s Homily for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time…
  • Featured
    Spirituality and Steadiness
    Catholic Outlook
      • News ▾
        • Featured
        • Parish News
        • Diocese of Parramatta
        • Bishop Vincent
        • Pope Leo XIV
        • World
      • e-Magazine
      • Advertise
      • Subscribe
      • Christmas Art Competition
      • Contact Us

      Opinion

      Popular Posts

      • mystic
      • mystic

        Mystical experience and everyday people

        Read More
      • Catholic 101: What is prayer? How do I pray?

        Read More
      • Fr Frank’s Homily – 19 September 2021

        Read More
      • Fr Frank’s Homily – 12 September 2021

        Read More
      • The River and Its Source

        Outlook Contributor
        09/09/2026
        Pope Leo XIV’s catechesis on the liturgy is complete. Read whole, the eight reflections are a single argument — and a map through the liturgy wars....
      • Vatican body develops concept of ‘ecological sin’ in spiritual salvo on the environment

        Outlook Contributor
        08/09/2026
        In a sprawling document articulating the duty of Christians to care for the environment, a Vatican advisory body wrote that taking action to preserve the planet for future generations is "not only an ethical requirement, but also a theological one." ...
      • Building a civilisation of love against a culture of power

        Outlook Contributor
        08/09/2026
        Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas rejects the global culture of military and economic dominance, calling instead for a “civilization of love” centered on human dignity, shared responsibility, and the common good....
      • Leo XIV and US-Vatican relations: Preparing for the post-Trump era

        Outlook Contributor
        07/09/2026
        Pope Leo XIV has improved US–Vatican relations, and the American Catholic right that opposed Francis has softened toward him, yet he refuses to be cast as an anti-Trump voice....
      • 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time: Reflections by Richard Korkor

        Outlook Contributor
        06/09/2026
        Within all this goodness and messiness, joy and sorrow — for every great father, and every father who did not or could not live out the role as deep down they may have desired — we pray for you on this day with a heart that mirrors the heart...
      • Fr Frank Brennan’s Homily for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, 2026

        Outlook Contributor
        05/09/2026
        Happy Father’s Day to all the dads.  Today can be more than a commercial opportunity for the sale of lots of socks.  Let’s all recall our own fathers whether they be living or dead. ...
      • Spirituality and Steadiness

        Outlook Contributor
        04/09/2026
        Something in us is dissatisfied with the ordinary. There’s something in the ordinary that can have us think that predictable routines, domestic rhythms, and commitment to duty can weigh us down......
      • Making Synodality work: The laity’s role in daily practice

        Outlook Contributor
        04/09/2026
        Clericalism and synodality are opposites: ending clerical privilege, unpaid domestic servitude and closed-door governance, and reclaiming the baptismal dignity of the laity, is the structural cleansing a synodal Church requires....
      • A Church that is neither chaplain nor banner

        Outlook Contributor
        03/09/2026
        As religion returns as a tool of power from Washington to Moscow to Delhi, faith risks becoming an identity weapon; the Church stays effective only by remaining free and unenlistable....
      Load More
      Catholic Outlook
      • News ▾
      • e-Magazine
      • Advertise
      • Subscribe
      • Christmas Art Competition
      • Contact Us
      Copyright 2025. Diocese of Parramatta. The Diocese of Parramatta reaffirms the wise axiom attributed to Saint Augustine of Hippo: “In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, freedom; in all things, charity.” In this spirit, Catholic Outlook publishes a variety of Catholic viewpoints. They are not necessarily the official views of the Diocese of Parramatta.