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A reflection for International Day of Older Persons
1 October is the United Nations’ International Day of Older Persons Most of us are interested in activities designed for groups to which we belong. So the International Day of Older Persons will...
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Our Diocese celebrates the Season of Creation
This Feast Day of St Francis of Assisi, the parishioners, students and clergy of the Diocese of Parramatta present our reflection, created to show the beauty of our Diocese and the worldwide...
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Webinars on Catholic Mission
World Mission Month is just around the corner. It’s a time to focus on Catholic Mission and the life-changing work of the Church in Cambodia’s Battambang Province. The Arrupe Centre, established by...
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Catholic Religious Australia opposes the Migration Amendment Bill 2020
Catholic Religious Australia (CRA) strongly opposes the Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2020 which the Senate intends to pass this week. CRA...
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News & Events Weekly Update
News and Events across the Diocese of Parramatta and beyond Diocese of Parramatta Notices Diocese of Parramatta COVID-19 update Parishes across Western Sydney and the Blue Mountains have...
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New drops this week on The Well
What’s New in The Well: What are Angels? 29 September was the Feast of the Archangels, followed by the Feast of the Guardian Angels on 2 October – so what’s all this fuss about ‘ANGELS’? Qwayne,...
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Federal Budget leaves many asking ‘what hope for me?’
Catholic Social Services Australia says while the 2020-21 Commonwealth Budget delivers a financial boost for some, the country’s most vulnerable will again find themselves asking “What hope for me?”...
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Looking at others as brothers and sisters to save ourselves and the world
The message of Pope Francis’s new social encyclical: no one is saved alone. It proposes a fraternal society so that society is not overrun by war, hatred, violence, indifference and new walls. We are...
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Caritas Australia welcomes additional support for regional COVID-19 response...
Caritas Australia welcomes the government’s announcement in the 6 October federal budget that Australia will increase economic support for COVID-19 response and recovery in our region by $304.7...
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Vinnies welcomes Senator Lambie’s proposed rejection of Asylum Seeker phone ban
The St Vincent de Paul Society’s National Council has welcomed Senator Jacqui Lambie’s decision to block the Federal Government’s legislation which, if passed, has the power to ban mobile phones from...
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‘Fratelli Tutti’ challenges the United States and its church
Any attempt to read Pope Francis’ new encyclical Fratelli Tutti solely through an American lens is bound to result in a distortion of the document. The Pope is the universal pastor of the Catholic...
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Pope Francis envisions ‘renewed hope’ from universal love, open to ‘every man...
“I invite everyone to renewed hope” Pope Francis writes in his new encyclical letter “Fratelli Tutti,” addressed to his “brothers and sisters all” in this “wounded world” brought to its knees by the...
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Vinnies: Federal Budget relies on optimistic assumptions
Clair Victory, National President of the St Vincent de Paul Society, said the Federal Budget relies heavily on a number of optimistic assumptions and that it targets people who are already...
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Ministry to seafarers gets new name, new logo in centenary year
As it celebrates 100 years of global ministry to seafarers, the Apostleship of the Sea is also marking the occasion with the official adoption of the familiar name Stella Maris and launch of a new...
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Sr Patricia Fox continues campaign against oppression in the Philippines
The brutal killing of another Filipino rights activist is fresh in the mind of Sr Patricia Fox – spurring the 73-year-old Australian nun to keep campaigning against oppression in the Philippines....
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A reflection on World Mental Health Day
10 October is the World Health Organisation’s World Mental Health Day In the early days of response to the threat of coronavirus, people looked to the good of the whole society. We encouraged our...
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Pope Francis closes the door on the death penalty in ‘Fratelli Tutti’
Pope Francis’ new encyclical, “Fratelli Tutti,” does something that some Catholics believed could not be done: It ratifies a change in church teaching. In this case, on the death penalty. In 2018,...
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The Gospel of Peace
This reflection is written against the backdrop of the release of Pope Francis’s third encyclical, “Fratelli Tutti,“ on Oct 4, 2020, the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi. The focus of this encyclical...
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News & Events Weekly Update
News and Events across the Diocese of Parramatta and beyond Diocese of Parramatta Notices Diocese of Parramatta COVID-19 update Parishes across Western Sydney and the Blue Mountains have...
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Advocates celebrate as refugee ‘A’ freed from detention
A refugee who has been the focus of an online petition has been granted release from immigration detention after 11 years. The change.org petition, organised by Sr Elizabeth Young RSM, and signed by...
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