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Pope's book on the infancy of Jesus released

Thursday 22 November 2012

POPE Benedict XVI new book released yesterday, The Infancy Narratives is the final instalment of the Pope’s Jesus of Nazareth series and refers especially to the infancy of Jesus in the context of a family.

Wednesday 21 November 2012

IN response to government inaction regarding the detention of more than 1,300 immigrant children, organisations across Australia have joined forces to create the Australian Coalition to End Immigration Detention of Children (ACEIDC).

The Christian science of suffering

Tusday 20 November 2012

POPE Benedict XVI has addressed participants in a conference being held by the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers on the theme "The Hospital, setting for evangelisation: a human and spiritual mission" calling on them to "Be experts in this 'Christian science of suffering!'

Monday 19 November 2012

POPE Benedict the XVI has written a letter to all young people planning to attend World Youth Day in Rio in July 2013.

Friday 16 November 2012

THE Pontifical Council for Health Care will address the problem of abortion and other practices against Church teaching at some Catholic hospitals around the world, during its conference in the coming days.

Friday 16 November 2012

POPE Benedict XVI has told the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity that Christians must not allow their divisions to keep them from working together to evangelize a world enduring a “crisis of faith.”

Year of Faith scroll

Thursday 16 November 2012

A 'Year of Faith' scroll has been unveiled in Rome for pilgrims to write their prayers, thoughts and intentions throughout the year.

Faith in a time of 'practical atheism'

Thursday 15 November 2012

THE Pope continued his catechesis on the Year of Faith, by explaining that in a time of 'practical atheism' and secularism, Christians need to give convincing reasons for having both faith and hope.

YOUCAT going like hotcakes

Thursday 15 November 2012

YOUCAT which is the Catholic Church's Youth Catechism released at World Youth Day in Madrid last year , is going like hot cakes among Latin America's young people.

Thursday 15 November 2012

THE St Vincent de Paul Society National Council is disappointed by the increase in homelessness reflected in the 2011 Census data released by the ABS early this week.

Wednesday 14 November 2012

AFTER his parish in southern Nigeria was desecrated at the beginning of November, Monsignor Obiora F. Ike called on his parishioners to observe a week of prayer and penance.

'The Pope and I'

Tuesday 13 November 2012

A new book 'The Pope and I' by Gianfranco de Simone tells the true story of a jewish boy, Jerzy Kluger who at age five became close friends with a boy named Karol Wojtyla, who would become Pope John Paul II.

Tuesday 13 November 2012

THE President and Permanent Committee of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, on behalf of the Australian Bishops, have indicated in a statement released last night that they support the Prime Minister’s announcement of a Royal Commission into child sex abuse in Australia.

Monday 12 November 2012

POPE Benedict XVI issued the Motu Proprio Latina Lingua on Saturday, which established the new Pontifical Academy for Latin.

Pope meets with Vatican scientists

Friday 9 November 2012

THE Pope has met with Vatican scientist who participated in the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, which took place 5-7 November. The theme was “Complexity and Analogy in Science: Theoretical, Methodological, and Epistemological Aspects.”

Monday 5 November 2012

THE Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office has expressed grave concern about the legislative amendment to excise the whole Australian territory for asylum seekers who arrive by boat.

Monday 5 November 2012

THE Pontifical Council for Culture and an adult stem cell research foundation has announced that it will host the second international Vatican conference to discuss regenerative medicine and its implications for culture, ethics and faith from 11-13 April 2013.

Monday 5 November 2012

ON the last Sunday of October hundreds of Arab Christians living in the Holy Land travelled to the Marian shrine of the “Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Palestine" to mark the official start of the “Year of Faith” proclaimed by Pope Benedict XVI.

Thursday 1 November 2012

THE Australian Young Christian Workers recently held their 2012 National Council in Shiloh Hills, Adelaide. One of the main focuses of the National Council was to plan their new two-year campaign, Worth Working For: Security and Dignity in Life.

Sistine Chapel turns 500

Thursday 1 November 2012

500 years ago the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was inaugurated by Pope Julius II. Michelangelo's masterpeice now attracts more that 5 million visitors from around the world every year.

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