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Eight disasters in nine days...what happened next?

Wednesday 3 October 2012

WHEN eight disasters struck across the globe within nine days in 2009, what resulted was a tremendous stand in solidarity by the Australian people, whose donations to Caritas Australia have seen the lives of more than 460,000 people improved and strengthened.

Wednesday 3 October 2012

AUSTRALIAN Provincial Father Joachim Rego CP was elected last week as the new Superior General of the Passionists during the congregation's 46th General Chapter in Rome.

Tuesday 2 October 2012

THIS coming Sunday 7 October, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI will appoint two new doctors of the Church: St Hildegard of Bingen from Germany and St Juan de Ávila from Spain. Watch Video

Monday 1 October 2012

TODAY, October 1 is the feast day of St Thérèse of Lisieux. Watch the video of Pope Benedict explaining what the "The Little Flower" can teach Christians about spirituality.

Thursday 27 September 2012

GEELONG-born Columban priest, Father Kevin O’Neill has been elected the new Superior General of the Missionary Society of St Columban to lead the Society until 2018.

Thursday 27 Septemeber 2012

NOBEL Peace Prize Laureate and former President and Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, Dr José Ramos-Horta is the new patron for Catholic volunteer sending agency, Palms Australia.

Monday 17 September 2012

THE Archbishop of Vrhbosna (High Bosnia, Sarajevo), Cardinal Vinko Puljic, has described the recent Inter-religious Peace Meeting in Sarajevo as an encouraging sign of reconciliation and a commitment to enduring peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Friday 17 September 2012

AS Pope Benedict XVI's three day visit came to a close, the Pope thanked Lebanon and all the religious communities for hosting him. He also encouraged the Muslims and Christians who worked side by side during his visit, to continue to do so, in order to send a powerful message to the world.

Vatican sets water goal

Thursday 13 September 2012

WITH the international 'Week of Water' held last month, the Vatican is now working to cut the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and sanitation by 50 per cent, by 2015.

Bethany in Beirut

Thursday 13 September

IN the midst of unspeakable suffering in the Middle East, the centre of Saint Antoine run by the Good Shepherd Sisters is a sort of "Bethany in Beirut" offering comfort, medicine and hope to those who have lost everything.

Marian Congress in Rome

Wednesday 12 Septemeber 2012

EVERY four years the Pontifical Council for Culture hosts the Marian Mariological Congress, so that experts from around the world can discuss everything from research to theories and the future of Mariology.

Natural Fertility Conference

Wednesday 5 September 2012

WITH the Australian Council of Natural Family Planning's (ACNFP) Biennial Conference coinciding with Fertility Week this year, ACNFP President, Anne McGowan, says it is an opportune time to come together to celebrate and embrace the success of the Sympto-Thermal Method.

Wednesday 5 September 2012

FIFTEEN years ago, on September 5, 1997, one of the most influential people of the 20th century died. Her name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, but to the world she was known simply as Mother Teresa.

Tuesday 4 September

DURING a recent visit to the Purple House, medical facility in Alice Springs, Caritas Internationalis president, Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga witnessed first-hand the renal facility, nutritional program and traditional bush medicine program that is changing lives and preserving tradition.

Monday 3 Septemeber

SISTER Helena Pasztetnik, O.P., a former parishioner of St. John’s Church, Heidelberg and the Polish Marian Shrine, Essendon in the Archdiocese of Melbourne has made her first profession as a Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia Congregation in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.

Friday 31 August 2012

SPEAKING with Jesuit Fr Frank Brennan as part of the Eureka Street 21st birthday celebrations, Former Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, said he would like to see politicians devote more time to the things that matter in the long term of the country.

Free Rimsha Masih

Thursday 30 August 2012

PETER Jacob, executive secretary of the Catholic Church in Pakistan’s National Commission for Justice and Peace believes the case against the Pakistani Christian girl with learning difficulties accused of blasphemy has been “concocted” and should be dropped.

Tuesday 28 August 2012

ST Vincent de Paul Society had condemned successive governments, for almost 20 years of no increase in real terms to the unemployment benefit in Australia, saying the government cannot walk away from its responsibility.

Thursday 23 August 2012

NEXT Thursday, Archbishop Denis Hart, President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and the Hon Chris Bowen, Minister of Immigration and Citizenship will come together to discuss Australia's obligations to asylum seekers, as part of the Catholic Church celebrations for the 98th world day of migrant and refugees.

Thursday 23 August 2012

SR ANGELA Mary Doyle has added the Maria Cunningham Lifetime Contribution Award, to her long list of accolades which include Queenslander of the Year, recipient of the Queensland Premier’s inaugural Queensland Greats award, appointment to the Order of Australia and induction into the Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame.

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