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Household costs hit parishes

PARISHES are struggling to pay for necessary expenses as the cost of living continues to increase around the country. Combined with parishes’ increased costs, members of congregations are finding it difficult to put money in collection plates as a result of their own rising household expenses. While some Catholics may not know where their donations are going, a number of parishes in P...
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Parishes are doing it tough as the cost of living rises around Australia. PHOTO: BOB ROLLER, CNS

Pilgrimage heads for New Norcia – the slow way

ORGANISERS are preparing for the sixth annual Camino Salvado pilgrimage from Subiaco to New Norcia in August. Registrations for the 160km walk have already reached the 24-person limit, with many on a waiting list hoping for a cancellation. This year there will be two pilgrimages, the first commencing on August 25 and the second on September 8. Described as a walk for people “of fai...
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Staff and students from Nagle Catholic College in Geraldton prepare to head off from King’s Park along the Camino Salvado in May. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

NFP on global rise: conference

METHODS of Natural Family Planning are on the rise around the world, according to experts who gathered at the World Organisation of the Ovulation Method Billings (WOOMB) international conference earlier this year. The conference, which marked the Golden Jubilee of the Billings Method, was held in Malaysia in April and attracted about 250 delegates from more than 20 countries. Four tea...
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Pioneers of the natural family planning method which bears their name, Evelyn and John Billings. PHOTO: PETER CASAMENTO

Global crisis needs faith cooperation

UNITY between the major world religions is the key to restoring traditional values and morals to society, according to leading Jewish academic, Rabbi Shimon Cowen. Visiting Perth briefly in June to launch his book, Politics and Universal Ethics, Rabbi Cowen told The Record that despite their differences, Christians, Muslims, and Jews share much common ground. “There is a group of ethi...
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Rabbi Cowen says unity between the major faiths is key to the future.

Angelus bells’ peal planned for new Attadale Church

AFTER SEVERAL years of preparation, St Joseph Pignatelli Parish in Attadale is almost ready to begin construction of its new church. The original parish church, built in 1955, was only meant to be temporary, but the parish never had the funds to build a permanent church. But thanks to a generous bene-factor, the parish has now raised more than half the funds required, and hopes to com...
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Attadale parish priest Fr Sean Fernandez with drawings for the new parish church. Construction will hopefully begin next year. PHOTO: MATTHEW BIDDLE

Pope tells youths to play on Christ’s team, help build up the church

Pope Francis told young people God might have been trying to communicate something in forcing the World Youth Day vigil’s change of venue from a huge field to a long narrow stretch of sand and sea.

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Pope commissions young people to be missionaries without borders

Pope Francis commissioned some 3 million young people to join forces and form what could be called Missionaries Without Borders. “Where does Jesus send us?” he asked World Youth Day pilgrims July 28. “There are no borders, no limits: He sends us to everyone.”

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Pope urges Brazilian leaders to embrace dialogue, ‘social humility’

Speaking to political, economic and cultural leaders in Brazil, a country recently shaken by anti-government protests, Pope Francis called for a “culture of encounter” and said dialogue is the only way to promote social peace.

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Pope tells Brazilian protesters to be peaceful, bring values to society

The street protests involving hundreds of thousands of mostly young people in cities across Brazil, and in other countries, are a sign of the youths’ desire for a more just world, but Christians must ensure the protests are peaceful and that efforts to improve society are guided by Christian values, Pope Francis said.

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Twenty years on and families still must fight for disabled

Everyone connected to disability, writes Barbara Harris, is invited to a free forum on Tuesday, July 30 – a chance to meet and talk with others…

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