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Happy 25th Birthday to the Don Bosco Youth and Recreation Centre
Each year over 70,000 jubilant children play on the extensive sporting facilities at the Don Bosco Youth and Recreation Centre, St Marys. The popular birthday venue celebrated its own 25th...
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News & Events Weekly Update
News and Events across the Diocese of Parramatta and beyond Diocese of Parramatta News Liturgical Ministry Formation Courses The Office For Worship is taking enrolments for its Liturgical...
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Pope’s picks for synod leaders express passion for peripheries
On Saturday, the Vatican announced Pope Francis’s picks for the four cardinals who’ll preside over an October meeting of bishops focused on youth. All four come from what the pontiff has described...
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Manus Island: Five years on
On 19 July 2013, the then Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, and Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, Peter O’Neill, signed the regional resettlement agreement between Australia and Papua New Guinea. The...
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Pope at Mass: exploiting women is a sin against God
In his homily at Mass in the Santa Marta residence, Pope Francis reflects on the exploitation of women today who are treated like objects, recalling that without women men cannot be the image and...
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The Catholic Church, child protection and safeguarding
The National Redress Scheme For several years, the Catholic Church has supported the creation of an independent process that would allow survivors of child sexual abuse to seek redress. One of the...
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Human trafficking in developed countries more common than previously thought
As many as 1 in 800 Americans is currently a victim of human trafficking, according to a new global report which found much higher rates of modern-day slavery in developed nations than previously...
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Doctor in Netherlands ‘asked family to hold down euthanasia patient’
Medic is under investigation after report finds drug was also slipped into the woman’s drink A doctor is under criminal investigation over a potential breach of Dutch euthanasia laws after slipping a...
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News & Events Weekly Update
News and Events across the Diocese of Parramatta and beyond Diocese of Parramatta News We’re hiring! If you’re studying or recently graduated from accounting and looking to get your foot in the...
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Pope calls for a firm stand against ‘shameful crime’ of human trafficking
Pope Francis on Sunday looked ahead to the World Day against Trafficking in Persons, marked each year on 30 July, and said it is everyone’s responsibility to take a stand against the shameful crime....
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Bishops to focus on Royal Commission at August meeting
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has convened an additional plenary meeting for 2018 to expedite the Catholic Church’s response to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to...
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Founder of Vinnies CEO Sleepout inspires community participation
The founder of the Vinnies CEO Sleepout has a new opportunity for all members of the community to raise awareness and money for people suffering from homelessness. This year’s CEO Sleepout raised...
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Anti-trafficking group loses Government funding
ACRATH (Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans) has launched a national fund-raising appeal after today’s announcement from the Federal Government revealed that it would not be...
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Bishops to release formal Royal Commission response this month
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has today agreed that it will release its formal response to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse by the end of the month....
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News & Events Weekly Update
News and Events across the Diocese of Parramatta and beyond Diocese of Parramatta News Natural Fertility Services “My husband and I opted for Natural Family Planning (NFP) after our first baby,...
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Feast of the Transfiguration; Anniversary of Hiroshima bombing
The atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the Catholic Feast of the Transfiguration. In the Gospel story Peter, James and John see the light of God’s glory shine out of Jesus. The contrast...
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August 8: Feast of Saint Mary MacKillop
One of the features of St Mary Mackillop’s life was the way in which she instinctively moved beyond narrow boundaries to look to bigger horizons in a wider world. At a time when so many changes in...
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Catholic Education Staff reach out to refugees and asylum seekers
Some Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta staff recently had the opportunity to participate in renewal sessions during Refugee Week. The informative program raised awareness of the plight of...
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International Youth Day
Young people are endlessly fascinating for the ageing. Sometimes they come to our attention simply for looking good, and at other times for being exceptionally good at pursuits that demands high...
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Vinnies NSW Drought Appeal
With 99% of New South Wales affected by drought, the St Vincent de Paul Society NSW with the proud support of The Sunday Telegraph today launched its appeal to raise funds for rural communities in...
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