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INTERNATIONAL – Women’s voices: Pope Francis says he’ll add women to Dicastery for Bishops
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News
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Pope Francis greets Sister Raffaella Petrini, an Italian member of the US-based Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist, at the Vatican on 3 December 2015. The Holy Father named Sister Petrini to be Secretary-General of the office governing the Vatican City State. Photo: CNS/Vatican Media.
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Francis said he plans to name two women to the committee t...
Plenary Council Second Assembly: Homily urges Plenary Council Members to Seek Unity
As Wednesday’s proceedings came to a close, Members of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia were invited to remember the “saving unity” to which the Church is called.
Plenary Council Second Assembly: Members of Plenary Council Pray for Christian Unity
Members of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia were encouraged on Tuesday evening to embrace the “new and demanding urgency” of ecumenism.
Ukraine front and centre at Second Assembly Mass
The first full day of proceedings of the Second Assembly concluded with a votive Mass of the Holy Spirit at Sydney’s St Mary’s Cathedral, celebrated according to the Ukrainian Rite by Bishop Mykola Bychok CSsr.
St John of God Health Care announces inaugural Fellowship recipients
St John of God Health Care has awarded fellowships to four caregivers to undertake research in their clinical areas.
MercyCare’s New Norcia partnership provides opportunities for refugees
A partnership between MercyCare and the New Norcia Benedictine Community has provided promising employment opportunities for refugees and asylum seekers.
Corpus Christi procession draws crowd at Canning Vale
More than 200 Canning Vale parishioners came together for the Feast of Corpus Christi to participate in the annual procession
Plenary Council Second Assembly: Members to reconsider two Plenary Council Motions
In the first afternoon session for Wednesday 7 July, an overwhelming majority of Members backed a motion to reconsider the two motions from Part 4 of the Council’s Motions and Amendments document entitled “Witnessing to the Equal Dignity of Women and Men”.
Falling numbers a ‘wake-up call’ for Catholics says Archbishop Costelloe
In an exclusive interview with The Australian this week, incoming Australian Catholic Bishops Conference President and Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB says the Church’s falling support is a “wake-up call” as it works to balance its convictions with the realities of an increasingly secular nation.
The Perth Archbishop said the Church needed to be faithful to its core principles a...
