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Pope Francis: the Holy Spirit unity and communion

Friday 24 May 2013

DURING Pope Francis' General Audience in St Peter's Square this week, he spoke of the Church's need for a renewed trust in the Holy Spirit who he said, "is the real engine of evangelisation in our lives" and "be guided by Him...witnessing the Gospel with courage, becoming instruments in our world of God's unity and communion."

Deceptive calm in Mali

Thursday 23 May 2013

AT present there are no longer any Christians living in the north and east of Mali. Around 500 Catholics have left the region.

The community of Life and Love

Wednesday 22 May 2013

BISHOP Peter Elliott recently delivered an address at the World Congress of Families in Sydney entitled The Community of Life and Love: A Holistic vision of the family in which he focussed on the notion that the family and not the individual is the basic living cell of society.

Tuesday 21 May 2013

THE Vatican has published its new Pontifical Yearbook. The 2012 volume includes all statistics related to the Church, based on data gathered back in 2011. The new figures show that there were 1.2 billion Catholics worldwide in 2011, which is 1.5% more than the year before.

Tuesday 21 May 2013

TODAY in downtown Brunswick St, the Church is journeying with people who have HIV/AIDS, through CatholicCare’s Catholic AIDS Ministry. Coordinator, Marg Hayes has a vision “to provide a place of hospitality and welcome for people with HIV/AIDS and their families and friends.”

Monday 20 May 2013

CHURCH leaders continue to preach forgiveness in the face of adversity in the Central African Republic which is currently afflicted by widespread acts of terror at the hands of Muslim extremist who seek to impose sharia law by force.

Friday 17 May 2013

THE Australian Catholic Life Council has released a short video series “God So Loved The World” as a pastoral resource to educate, inform and provide information about life issues.

Humanitarian Program will save lives

Thursday 16 May 2013

THE Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office have welcomed the government’s renewed commitment to provide refuge for 20,000 of the world's most vulnerable people through the humanitarian program.

Thursday 16 May 2013

SPEAKING at the World Congress of Families in Sydney today, Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, Brad Wilcox, will give a keynote address revealing the findings of a new international report that shows traditional two-parent families are affiliated with better education outcomes in Australia and much of Asia.

Thursday 16 May 2013

A NEW website designed to provide information on the way the Catholic Church will approach its engagement with the Royal Commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse has been launched today.

Wednesday 15 May 2013

CABRINI is ranked the second top maternity service nationally, according to the results of Medibank Private’s annual national survey into maternity hospital experiences announced to coincide with Mother’s Day.

Wednesday 15 May 2013

ON Monday 13 May, the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima, on the 96^th anniversary of Our Lady’s visitation at Fatima, and at the request of Pope Francis, Cardinal José da Cruz Policarpo, Patriarch of Lisbon, Portugal, consecrated the pontificate of Pope Francis to Our Lady of Fatima.

Doctor convicted of 3 murders

Monday 15 May 2013

TODAY’s The Age newspaper reports that Kermit Gosnell, the doctor in Philadelphia accused of killing babies allegedly immediately after their birth, has been convicted of killing three babies.

Monday 13 May 2013

AT Mass for the Seventh Sunday of Easter, Pope Francis canonized 800 Martyrs from the Italian city of Otranto, along with two Latin American religious Foundresses, Mother Laura Montoya e Upegui and Mother Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala, from Mexico.

Monday 13 May 2013

TODAY marks the beginning of National Volunteer Week. Later this week husband and wife volunteering team Maureen and Colin Goldsmith will receive 10-year service awards from not-for-profit aged and disability services organisation Villa Maria at its annual Volunteer Luncheon.

Thursday 9 May 2013

Archbishop Denis Hart, Archbishop of Melbourne, and Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, have welcomed the opportunity to attend the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into the Handling of Child Abuse by Religious and Other Non-Government Organisations later this month.

Thursday 9 May 2013

POPE Francis held an audience with more than 800 Superiors, currently in Rome for a conference of women religious. During the meeting the Pope emphasised that the vocation of women religious is not that of a 'single life' but one of spiritual motherhood.

Wednesday 8 May 2013

THE schedule for Pope Francis' apostolic trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for World Youth Day (WYD) has been released.

Pope prays for abused children

Tuesday 7 May 2013

DURING Mass in St Peter's Square Pope Francis has prayed for children who have been victims of abuse.

Tuesday 7 May 2013

CATHOLIC Health Australia Stewardship Board chair Rowena McNally has been named a board director of the International Committee of Catholic Health Care Institutions, joining Catholic health leaders from around the globe on the Vatican-appointed body.

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