Friday 30 July 2010

Centacare Catholic Family Services’ Bushfire Community Recovery Service wants to reassure bushfire affected community members that counselling and support services will not desert them.

Thursday 29 July 2010

Pope Benedict XVI appears to be relaxed and enjoying his days of vacation at the papal summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, says the local bishop.

Monday 26 July 2010

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian Catholic Church, once the world's largest underground Church, came from out of the catacombs. Viciously persecuted for a period of nearly half a century, one of the first initiatives of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, was to make the near century long dream of building the first Eastern Catholic University a reality.

Monday 26 July 2010

On Friday 16 July at the chapel of Nazareth House Nursing Home, Frs Tom Murtagh OFM and Arthur Boland OFM celebrated their Golden Jubilee of priestly ordination..  They were joined by 16 other priests at the altar, including the Minister Provincial of the Australian Franciscan Province,  Fr Paul Smith OFM.  In the congregation assembled for the event were members of both priests’ families.

Monday 26 July 2010

Dr Donna Orsuto, Director of the Lay Centre in  Rome and a Professor at the Gregorian University spoke to 150 people last Friday July 23rd at Newman College.

To listen to Donna Orsuto's address: click here

Last night in Melbourne, Archbishop Denis Hart was joined by Bishop Terry Brady, Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney and presently the Apostolic Administrator of Wilcannia-Forbes and member of the Bishops Commission for Pastoral Life, lay family movements and other Church leaders in a concrete demonstration of their support for marriage and family.