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Laudato Sì Week: Pope appeals for care of Creation
Preparing to celebrate “Laudato Sì” Week Pope Francis underscores the importance of caring for our Common Home in this time marked by the COVID-19 Pandemic. Addressing the faithful after the...
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‘Plastic Free Wednesday’ at Cerdon College, Merrylands
Communities in Western Sydney showcase their care for our common home. From May 16 to 24, Catholic communities around the world are celebrating Laudato Si’ Week. Laudato Si’ Week – which marks the...
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Environmental awareness second nature to Holy Spirit Parish, St Clair
Communities in Western Sydney showcase their care for our common home. From May 16 to 24, Catholic communities around the world are celebrating Laudato Si’ Week. Laudato Si’ Week – which marks the...
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A reflection for World Day of Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
May 21 is the United Nations’ World Day of Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development The threat of coronavirus has stretched Western societies in many ways, and has taken them in different...
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Light for a new path
Before Saturday. I woke up, my wife was reversing out of the driveway taking my daughter to physical culture classes. Breakfast. A load of washing on and off to the park with my youngest son....
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Young people pray together for Laudato Si’ Week
From May 16 to 24, Catholic communities around the world are celebrating Laudato Si’ Week. Laudato Si’ Week – which marks the fifth anniversary of Pope Francis’ encyclical – is sponsored by the...
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Asian Churches observe Laudato Sì Week
In the run-up to the 5th anniversary of Pope Francis’ landmark encyclical “Laudato sí: on the Care for Our Common Home” on Sunday, local Churches in Indonesia, Pakistan and India are observing the...
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Special Week and Anniversary Year to mark 5 years of Laudato Si
It was on May 24, 2015, that Pope Francis signed his landmark encyclical, “‘Laudato Si’: On the Care for Our Common Home”. On Sunday, it will be exactly 5 years of this popular document, which has...
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Laudato Si’ Week: 5 years since Pope Francis’ encyclical on integral ecology
As the Church marks Laudato Si’ Week ahead of the 5th anniversary of Pope Francis’ encyclical on 24 May, we explore some of the themes running through “On the Care for our Common Home.” Pope Francis’...
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Movement to divest from fossil fuels gains momentum
Forty-two institutions connected with various religious denominations announce their decision to divest from investments in the fossil fuel industry. Institutions hailing from the Catholic, Anglican,...
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Pope at Audience: Mystery of Creation opens us up to prayer
Pope Francis holds his weekly General Audience during Laudato Si’ Week, and reflects on the mystery of Creation and how it opens us up to prayer. Continuing his catechesis cycle on the theme of...
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REPAM raises cry of alarm regarding collapse of the Amazon
On Monday morning, REPAM published an announcement calling on “urgent and unified action to avoid a humanitarian and environmental tragedy” in the Amazon region. The Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network...
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Greystanes parishioners nurturing their green thumbs
Communities in Western Sydney showcase their care for our common home. From May 16 to 24, Catholic communities around the world are celebrating Laudato Si’ Week. Laudato Si’ Week – which marks the...
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Bishop Vincent’s message for the fifth anniversary of Laudato Si’
Message for the fifth anniversary of Laudato Si’ My dear friends, Five years ago, Pope Francis issued Laudato Si’. That encyclical, on the environment, called for an ‘ecological conversion’,...
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Pope Francis appeals for Laudato si’ Year, releases special prayer
Pope Francis urges everyone to take part in the just-opened Laudato si’ Year, and releases a special prayer to accompany the celebration. After praying the Regina Caeli on Sunday, Pope Francis...
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Couples Keeping It Together During Corona Crisis
Lockdown need not equal breakdown. Marriages and relationships are under stress from the vastly ramped-up pressures of the COVID-19 crisis, but help is at hand. People feeling the pinch are certainly...
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Aboriginal elders connecting Western Sydney community
In 2012, four Aboriginal elders in Western Sydney founded the Baabayn Aboriginal Corporation. Originally from other areas of NSW, their aim was to connect with families in the local community and to...
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Couples Keeping It Together During Corona Crisis
Lockdown need not equal breakdown. Marriages and relationships are under stress from the vastly ramped-up pressures of the COVID-19 crisis, but help is at hand. People feeling the pinch are certainly...
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John McCarthy QC says Church leads the globe in eradicating slavery with Pope...
The COVID-19 pandemic gives John McCarthy QC an added dimension to his anti-slavery work but he remains sharply focused on the bigger picture. The chair of Sydney Archdiocese’s Anti-Slavery Taskforce...
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Laudato si’: An Encyclical to help us look to the post-pandemic future
Five years ago, Pope Francis signed a document which represented a major step forward in the Church’s Social Doctrine and is a road map for building more just societies that are capable of...
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