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Support for hosting asylum seekers in the community

Thursday 28 February 2013

IN a press relase today Fr Maurizio Pettenà, Director of ACMRO, said “Asylum seekers are not criminals and should not be treated as such. The suggestion that serious crimes committed by one asylum seekers gives grounds for treating all asylum seekers as criminals is greatly concerning.”

Stalin’s artic death camps

Monday 25 February 2013

MARK Riedemann from the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need interviews Fr Michael Shields, an American missionary priest, who ministers to the last of the Gulag survivors left in the onetime arctic death camp, in Magadan, Siberia.

Pope: "I am not abandoning The Church"

Monday 25 February 2013

POPE Benedict XVI has given his final Angelus address in front of thousands of Catholic faithful from all over the world gathered in St Peter's square.

Monday 25 February 2013

CHALDEAN Archbishop of Mosul, Amel Nona, speaks about the situation for Catholics in Iraq, ten years after the American-led invasion.

Friday 22 February 2013

THE annual national conference of the Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans (ACRATH) was held from 18 – 20 February at The Centre in Randwick, NSW. Forty-one ACRATH members, from almost all states and territories, were joined by two Catholic sisters from the newly formed NZ Religious Against Trafficking in Humans (NZRATH).

Feast of the Chair of St Peter

Friday 22 February 2013

IT is fitting and one could say providential that today’s Feast of the Chair of St Peter marks one week until Pope Benedict XVI retires on Thursday 28 February at 8:00pm.

Rules of the conclave process

Thursday 21 February 2013

AS all Catholics prepare for the approaching conclave, here’s a wonderful resource written by one of Rome’s true experts on the subject - by Monsignor Charles Burns, a Scottish historian who once worked in the Vatican Archives.

Thursday 21 February 2013

MELBOURNE couple Andrew Leong and Mary Seong are preparing to spend the next 12 months volunteering in East Timor.

Order of Malta celebrations in Rome

Wednesday 20 February 2013

ON 9 FEBRUARY 2013, more than 4500 members and volunteers of the Order of Malta from every quarter of the Catholic world processed into St Peter’s Basilica in Rome for the celebration of Holy Mass by the Cardinal Secretary of State, Tarcisio Bertone.

Vale Dr Lyn Billings

Monday 18 February 2013

AFTER a lifetime of work in the area of natural fertility, Dr Evelyn Livingston Billings AM, DCSG, MBBS (Melb), DCH (Lond) died on 16 February aged 95 after a short illness. Her funeral will be held at St Patrick's Cathedral on Thursday 21 February.

Thursday 14 February 2013

ST VALENTINE’S Day reminds us of the innate desire we all have for love –to both give it and receive it. This longing is at the centre of our search for happiness. But how often do we reflect on what love is really about?

Tuesday 12 February 2013

THIS Lent Melbournians have the opportunity to give expression to the Gospel imperative to pursue justice and help those suffering from poverty and disadvantage through Caritas Australia’s Project Compassion.

Monday 11 February 2013

ARCHBISHOP Denis Hart, President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and Archbishop of Melbourne released this statement following Pope Benedict XVI announcement that he would be resigning at the end of the month.

The Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes

Monday 11 February 2013

TODAY the Catholic Church celebrates the liturgical memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, recalling a series of 18 appearances that the Blessed Virgin Mary made to a 14-year-old French peasant girl, Saint Bernadette Soubirous.

Rome Celebrates Ancient Order

Friday 8 February 2013

AUSTRALIAN Order of Malta delegates are among 4,000 international delegates currently in Rome to celebrate the 900 year anniversary of the issue of the papal bull Pie postulatio voluntatis by Pope Paschal II on 15 February 1113.

Friday 8 February 2013

WHEN the head of the Pontifical Council for Culture said he wanted to listen to what today's young people had to say, he wasn't afraid to hear it belted out at 100 decibels.

Friday 8 February 2013

THE new leader of Iraq’s largest Christian community has been hailed as “a man of courage” who will give new hope to a people who have suffered a decade of bloody persecution.

Friday 8 February 2013

INTERNATIONAL aid and development organisation of the Catholic Church, Caritas Australia, has committed $70,000 (AU) to help those affected by recent flooding in the country’s southern Gaza province, but the Mozambique governement and the aid organisations providing assistance are struggling to respond to the wide reaching needs due to financial constraints.

Tuesday 5 February 2013

POPE Benedict XVI's message for Lent is that when people are open to God’s love, then they can “love with him, in him and like him.”

Tuesday 5 February 2013

THE largest statue of the Virgin Mary in the world, dedicated to Our Lady of Socavon, was inaugurated at a Friday 1 February ceremony in the city of Oruro, Bolivia.

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