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New Melbourne Auxiliary appointed Print E-mail

Mgr Les TomlinsonTuesday 5 May 2009

Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Monsignor Les Tomlinson as Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne.

The appointment was announced in Rome at 12pm on Tuesday 5 May 2009 (8pm AEST).

 

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Hard times demand justice for the most vulnerable workers Print E-mail
Australian Catholic Social Justice Council logoFriday 1 May 2009

Australia’s lowest-paid workers should not have to carry the costs of job protection, the Chairman of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council (ACSJC), Bishop Christopher Saunders, says in his annual Pastoral Letter for the Feast of St Joseph the Worker, held today (1 May).
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Solomons’ tsunami-wrecked church to be rebuilt Print E-mail

Aid to the Church in Need logoFriday 1 May 2009

Catholics on a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean are rejoicing after hearing that their church will be rebuilt in the wake of a devastating tsunami which ravaged the Solomon Islands.

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Vocations and evangelisation in Pope's prayers this May Print E-mail

Pope Benedict XVIFriday 1 May 2009

The Vatican’s press office has released Pope Benedict’s prayer intentions for the month of May. The Holy Father is praying that the laity enourage vocations and that the Church be unified in its efforts to evangelise.

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Cardinal Rivera urges prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe to halt swine flu Print E-mail

Our Lady of GuadalupeWednesday 29 April 2009

The Archbishop of Mexico City, Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, is encouraging the faithful to pray to Our Lady of Guadalupe for an end to the swine flu epidemic that has taken the lives of more than 100 people in the country.

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Study: children that go to Mass, continue going Print E-mail

EucharistWednesday 29 April 2009

If parents want their children to carry the Catholic faith from childhood to adulthood, take them to Mass, say a U.S. bishops' conference spokesman.

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Sri Lanka Crisis: $250,000 USD per day urgently required Print E-mail

Displaced people in Sri Lanka. Photo:CNSTuesday 28 April 2009

Caritas Australia is calling for public and further Government support to the hundreds of thousands of Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Northern Sri Lanka.

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