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Time to heal wounds in the United States
The 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden, has been officially sworn in. His presidency, after the contested elections by Donald Trump and the dramatic assault on Capitol Hill, has the task...
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News & Events Weekly Update
News and Events across the Diocese of Parramatta and beyond Diocese of Parramatta Notices Positions Vacant: Parish Secretary – St Mary of the Cross MacKillop Parish, Upper Blue Mountains and...
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Worry Not: A Pandemic Prayer
Loving God, your world is a mess. For all its beauty, your creation is now showing its fierce, destructive power. Everywhere on our small globe (and nowhere more than in these United States), people...
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A reflection on Australia Day
26 January is Australia Day Australia Day recalls the arrival of the First Fleet under Governor Phillip in 1778. It marked the beginning of European settlement in Australia and of Indigenous...
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Palms Australia seeks Mission recruitment assistance
For 60 years, Palms Australia has been recruiting, preparing, sending and supporting Catholics from all around Australia to fill overseas professional placements in response to requests from...
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Josephites proud to stand with First Nations Peoples
The Sisters of St Joseph are honoured to stand with First Nations Peoples and to affirm the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Its call for truth-telling, for a Makarrata Commission to supervise...
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A Plague of Catholic cafeteria consequentialism
Viewed from the outside, Catholicism’s social teachings appear to be a perplexing gamut of unreasonably extreme positions lacking in any overall coherence. Sharp criticisms of laissez-faire...
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Fr Frank’s Homily – 31 January 2021
Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time Readings: Deuteronomy 18:15-20; 1 Corinthians 7:32-35; Mark 1:21-28 31 January 2021 Our state borders are opening. COVID vaccines are starting to roll...
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Vinnies and Amazon Australia help 1,000 students with back-to-school essentials
The St Vincent de Paul Society is providing more than 1,000 students with back-to-school necessities thanks to a generous commitment from Amazon Australia. St Vincent de Paul Society National Council...
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Catholic social teaching can aid Australia’s economic recovery from COVID-19
Twelve months on from the arrival of COVID-19 on our shores, we are still coming to terms with what the pandemic means from a health, an economic and a social perspective. As governments, community...
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News & Events Weekly Update
News and Events across the Diocese of Parramatta and beyond Diocese of Parramatta Notices Positions Vacant: Parish Secretary – St Mary of the Cross MacKillop Parish, Upper Blue Mountains and...
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CSSA: Pursuit of common good must drive economic recovery
The solidarity that inspired the national effort to suppress the health effects of COVID-19 must also shape Australia’s economic recovery, a new Catholic Social Services Australia report argues. The...
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Prison Ministry: Meeting Jesus in the fringe dwellers of society
After much discernment in prayer, Josephite Sister Liz Koziol RSJ recalled being overcome by a sense of peace, as she accepted yet another call, this time to lead the Perth Archdiocesan Prison...
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A Day in the Life of Kim Barnes rsj – Lochinvar Josephite
“We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone… and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that create...
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Cardinal Parolin: we have no alternative but to work together to build our...
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, sends a video message to the Climate Action Summit, urging participants to use the technology we have for better and more integral progress....
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Pope’s prayer intention for February: for women who are victims of violence
The Pope Video for February sends out a powerful message against the various kinds of violence against women. In the face of this “degradation of all humanity,” the Holy Father asks that women be...
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Leading border bishops and activists to Biden: Follow Pope Francis on migration
Five U.S. border bishops, along with a number of leading migration activists and advocates, have sent a letter to President Joe Biden outlining a plan for border reform, modelled after Pope Francis’...
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Austen Ivereigh speaks on ‘Let Us Dream’
Papal biographer Austen Ivereigh has addressed a study session organised by Fr Adrian Graffy, the Parish Priest of Gidea Park Parish in the Catholic Diocese of Brentwood, London, United Kingdom On...
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The Seamless Garment must be properly understood
Back in 2007, during the time leading up to the referendum in Portugal that resulted in the legalisation of abortion-on-demand up to the tenth week of gestation, members of the pro-life campaign hung...
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A reflection for the Anniversary of the Apology to the Stolen Generations
13 February is the Anniversary of the National Apology to the Stolen Generations The Anniversary of the National Apology to the Stolen Generations takes place very soon after Australia Day. This...
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