By MARILYN RODRIGUES SYDNEY (OSV News) – The joy of Eastertide has turned to shock and bewilderment across Sydney’s Catholic community in the wake of a deadly knife attack at Bondi Junction Westfield shopping centre on April 13, in which seven people were killed and a dozen injured, including a nine-month-old baby. Archbishop Anthony Fisher of … Read More about Eastertide joy turns to tears as Sydney Catholics mourn horrific knife attack’s victims
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Christchurch CSS Foodbank closed
After 16 years, Christchurch diocese’s Catholic ... Read More about Christchurch CSS Foodbank closed
Papal Nuncio goes back to Rome
Archbishop Novatus Rugambwa, the Apostolic Nuncio ... Read More about Papal Nuncio goes back to Rome
Festival of New Life date announced
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QUEBEC CITY (CNS) – In a brief protest at a papal Mass in Canada, Indigenous women unfurled a banner that said, “Rescind the Doctrine”. The protest on July 28 was a momentary but graphic reminder of how, when representatives of Canada’s First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities met Pope Francis … Read More about Raising banner, protesters at papal Mass raise questions about ‘Doctrine of Discovery’
EDMONTON, Alberta (CNS) – While presented as missionary work, the operation of residential schools by Catholics in Canada was actually an attempt to impose European culture on Canada’s Indigenous people, Pope Francis said. “One cannot proclaim God in a way contrary to God himself,” the Pope said on July 25 … Read More about Indigenous and Catholic: One can proudly be both, Pope says
Auckland Bishop Stephen Lowe has been appointed as the Grand Prior of the New Zealand Magistral Delegation of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (EOHSJ). Invested into the order in 2018, Bishop Lowe officially assumed his new role on July 3 at a ceremony at the Pompallier … Read More about New grand prior for Holy Sepulchre order in NZ
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — “It seems necessary to make it clear that the ‘Synodal Path’ in Germany does not have the power to compel bishops and the faithful to assume new modes of governance and new approaches to doctrine and morals,” said an unsigned “declaration of the Holy See.” Released … Read More about German Synodal Path must not create new structures, doctrines, Vatican says
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Francis interrupted his traditional July break to meet with Prince Albert II of Monaco and his wife, Princess Charlene, at the Vatican. According to the Vatican press office, the Pope met with the royal couple July 20 and spoke privately for 25 minutes. After their … Read More about Pope meets with Monaco royalty at Vatican
Eileen Hickey has resigned from her position as the housekeeper at the Gore Catholic Presbytery from May 31 this year. She had been in this position for almost 30 years, and has seen many changes in the Church over that period of time. When she was first engaged by the … Read More about Presbytery housekeeper in Gore for nearly 30 years
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