How Can a War Be Just?
Dr Robert Gascoigne explores the Catholic Church’s just war theory, citing a recent statement of Pope Francis.
Waiting for Christmas
We say that we are waiting for the birth of Christ, but that has already happened.
The Girl on the Train
Regular writer Shirley McHugh shares an experience that changed her, and one which invokes the injunction of the Year of Mercy, “Be merciful as God is merciful.”
Food's Long Shadow
The interconnection between what we eat, personal health, animal welfare, environmental degradation − in fact the future of life on earth − is becoming more obvious.
11 Schools Remember with Poppies
Remembrance Day is held in Australia on 11 November each year to commemorate all Australians who have died as a result of war.
A River Runs Through It
Aurora invited Dr Mark Dunn to share some of the findings from his recent doctoral thesis about the place that is home for him, and for so many Aurora readers.
Altar Servers 101
If all regular churchgoers were surveyed and asked what concerns them most about the state of the church, invariably the response would be ‘lack of young people at Mass’.
And the Greatest of These is Love
Traditionally, for Catholics, November is a time for remembering the dead, those “who have gone before us, marked with the sign of faith”. Andrew Hamilton reflects on endings and beginnings.
