Melbourne News

Tuesday 17 July 2012

ON Sunday 15 July, CatholicCare staff, family and friends participated in The Age Run, Melbourne event, as part of the ‘Walking Angels’ team.

ACSA Conference comes to Melbourne

Thursday 12 July 2012

TWO hundred and thirty students and alumni attended the 2012 Australian Catholic Students Association conference held at Queens College in Parkville last weekend.

Highest honour for Archbishop Forte

Wednesday 11 July 2012

INTERNATIONAL guest speaker Archbishop Bruno Forte, spoke on the topic of "The New Evangelisation: A challenge and a promise,” at the Australian Catholic University (ACU), before being awarded the university's highest honour.

Dillon House: Legacy of a loyal friend

Tuesday 10 July 2012

THE legacy of Ian Dillon (SJ) will live on at Jesuit Social Services, with one of the organisation’s outreach facilities recently named Dillon House, in his honour.

Monday 9 July 2012

INTERNATIONALLY renowned European theologian, member of the Papal International Theological Commission and Bishop of Chieti-Vasto, Italy Archbishop Bruno Forte will deliver the final address of his Melbourne tour this evening, entitled "The New Evangelisation: A challenge and a promise," at the Australian Catholic University (ACU).

Mon

day 9 July 2012

THE newly rebuilt St Mary’s Church, Kinglake, was nominated for a Victorian Architecture award after being destroyed during the bushfires, in 2009.

End of life and life stories

Monday 9 July 2012

TO COMMEMORATE Palliative Care Week in May, Calvary Health Care Bethlehem launched a book with Our Lady of Sion Girls’ College that reflected the theme of the week: ‘Some things are too important to be left unsaid … let’s chat about dying’.

Catholics Returning Home

Monday

9 July 2012

ST JUDE’S, Scoresby's, first Catholics Returning Home program for 2012 concluded last month.

Friday 6 July 2012

ON the Solemnity of the Ascension, more than 20 young adults from the Catholic Overseas Students Down Under (COSDU) Society of the University of Melbourne, gathered at the Little Sisters of the Poor aged-care facility, St Joseph’s Home, in Northcote to celebrate with residents.

Archbishop Bruno Forte visits Melbourne

Friday 6 July, 2012

PROMINENT European theologian, member of the Papal International Theological Commission and Bishop of Chieti-Vasto, Italy, Archbishop Bruno Forte is currently visiting Melbourne.

Vale Fr Duc Thu Nguyen

Thursday

5 July 2012

FR THU, known by Australian Jesuits as Gus, passed away at the age of 78 on Tuesday 26 June, at St Vincent’s Hospital, East Melbourne, following a stroke.

Ordination of Michael Gallacher

Wednesday 4 July 2012

DESPITE the bitterly cold winter’s evening outside, the spirit inside St Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne, on Friday, 29 June, 2012,the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, radiated a warm and intensely joyous atmosphere. This environment embraced all who gathered for the ordination to the priesthood of Melbourne Archdiocese’s, Reverend Michael Peter Gallacher.

Vale Fr Ronald Poulsen

Thursday 5 July, 2012

AT THE great age of 91, Father Ronald Harold Poulsen PE, passed away at the Frankston Hospital on Thursday morning, 28 June 2012.

Vale Fr Peter Steele SJ

Thursday 5 July 2012

FR PETER Daniel Steele SJ died at 6.10pm on Wednesday, 27 June, 2012 at Caritas Christi Hospice, Kew, Victoria, aged 72 years. A Vigil Mass was held at 7.30pm on Sunday 1 July, at the Newman College Chapel. A Requiem Mass and Funeral was held at 1pm, Monday 2 July, at Newman College Chapel, followed by interment in Melbourne General Cemetery.

Monday 25 June 2012

ON THE evening of Thursday 21 June 160 business and community leaders slept out at Etihad Stadium in an awareness-raising and fundraising event organised by the St Vincent de Paul Society.

Thursday, 21 June 2012

ON SUNDAY 3 June, 2012, members of the Jewish and Catholic communities of Melbourne sat down at table together for the seventh annual Jewish Catholic Friendship Dinner in the Cathedral Room at the Cardinal Knox Centre in East Melbourne

Inaugural Mass for Expectant Mothers

Tuesday 19 June 2012

MORE THAN 80 expectant mothers along with their families attended the inaugural Mass for Expectant Mothers at St Patrick’s Cathedral on Sunday 17 June, where they received a special blessing from Archbishop Denis Hart for a safe and healthy pregnancy.

Thursday 14 June, 2012

ON 17 JUNE 2012, a Mass for Expectant Mothers will be celebrated in St Patrick's Cathedral, following the recent release of the rite of blessing for the unborn by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Wednesday 13 June 2012

Archbishop Denis Hart today announced the appointment of Mr Jeffery J Gleeson SC as an Independent Commissioner under the Melbourne Response. Mr Gleeson will take up his appointment in July 2012.

Patrick Madrid makes no apologies

Wednesday 13 June 2012

RENOWNED CATHOLIC apologist, author and EWTN television and radio host, Patrick Madrid, was in Australia last month to present a series of seminars and talks on the Catholic faith. The 2-week Australian tour, between 18-31 May, which was hosted by the Catholic Adult Education Centre, Archdiocese of Sydney, saw Patrick travel to Melbourne, Wagga Wagga and Brisbane.

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