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Catholic Care welcomes extra funding for domestic violence services
1+ hour, 44+ min ago (356+ words) Catholic Care Wilcannia-Forbes has welcomed the New South Wales Government's announcement of an extra $184. 1 million for domestic and family violence programs in this week's state budget to help keep more women and children safe. CCWF is the largest provider of…...
Conference president returns to the wellspring of his youth to open campus
1+ mon, 2+ hour ago (340+ words) Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe was welcomed back to Salesian College Chadstone in Melbourne, where he was once a former student, teacher and rector. Source: The Record." Archbishop Costelloe visited the school on May 5 to bless and open the college's refurbished…...
US Vice President brings his conversion to Catholicism to book
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (224+ words) United States Vice President'JD Vance'has a new book coming out that will explore his religious faith and his conversion to Catholicism as an adult. Source: National Catholic Reporter/AP. "The story of how I regained my faith, of course, only…...
Cathedral light show attracts thousands of visitors
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (317+ words) The interior of St Francis Xavier's Cathedral in Adelaide has been transformed by stunning projections as part of the Chiaroscuro Adelaide Fringe show. Source: The Southern Cross. In what is believed to be the first time that architectural projection has…...
Papua New Guinea Catholics celebrate nation's first saint
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (356+ words) Papua New Guinea's Cardinal John Ribat has hailed St Peter To Rot, the island nation's first and only indigenous saint, as a witness to the country's turbulent past and a sign of holiness for the present. Source: UCA News. The…...
Mass to mark 30th anniversary of cathedral fire
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (369+ words) Thirty years ago, a devastating fire tore through St Patrick's Cathedral in Parramatta " a moment seared into the memory of parishioners, clergy, and school communities of the Parramatta Diocese. Source: Catholic Outlook. For the then-cathedral dean and parish priest, Msgr…...
PM uses Old Testament to justify religious text exemptions
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (396+ words) Cath News, the most frequently visited Catholic website in Australia, is your daily news service featuring Catholics and Catholicism from home and around the world, Mass on Demand and on line, prayer, meditation, reflections, opinion, and reviews. And, what's more…...
Murder and mayhem combine again " or do they?
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (319+ words) Cath News, the most frequently visited Catholic website in Australia, is your daily news service featuring Catholics and Catholicism from home and around the world, Mass on Demand and on line, prayer, meditation, reflections, opinion, and reviews. And, what's more…...
New commissioner appointed as outcomes for Indigenous children worsen
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (393+ words) Cath News, the most frequently visited Catholic website in Australia, is your daily news service featuring Catholics and Catholicism from home and around the world, Mass on Demand and on line, prayer, meditation, reflections, opinion, and reviews. And, what's more…...