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“I am very pleased with the synod’s final document,” Cardinal Robert McElroy told America’s Vatican correspondent on the afternoon of Sunday, Oct. 27. That morning he had concelebrated the concluding Mass of the Synod on Synodality with bishops and priests from around the world in St. Peter’s Basilica, presided over...
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The installation Mass for Fr Wim Hoekstra at Blacktown recently was by no means his first as Parish Priest – he was ordained almost 50 years ago – but for him this latest appointment is just as meaningful as the others. ...
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The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors released its first annual report October 29, detailing measures taken to combat sexual violence within the church. The document reveals uneven implementation across various countries worldwide....
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A few days ago, as the Synod on Synodality was reaching its conclusion in Rome, I spoke with my America colleagues Zac Davis and Colleen Dulle for a joint recording for the “Jesuitical” and “Inside the Vatican” podcasts....
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Parishioners celebrated the installation of its first Somascan Parish Priest Rev Johnson Malayil Joseph CRS - at St Padre Pio Parish Glenmore Park, in a special Mass and ceremony. ...
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The kingdom vision of Jesus guides us as we endeavour to be a collective witness against the politics of fear and the economy of exclusion. May we enact this vision individually and as a Body of Christ by lives built on love, pivoted to justice and animated by mercy....
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In today’s gospel, a scribe asks Jesus which is the first of all the commandments. Mark has Jesus repeat Moses’ formula from the Book of Deuteronomy: ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your...
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After members of the Synod of Bishops approved their final document, Pope Francis announced that he would not write the customary post-synodal apostolic exhortation but would offer the final document to the entire church to implement....
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For example, take a couple in a marriage. They fall in love and commit themselves to love each other and stay with each other for the rest of their lives, and at root they fully intend that. They respect each other, are good to each other, and would die...