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Mass times, news and events in Western Sydney and the Blue Mountains will be just that little easier to find thanks to a new mobile app launched by the Diocese of Parramatta. The app comes as a response to Pope Francis’ call to find new ways of, “communicating the...
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Fr Josip Kesina OFM, Rector of the Croatian Catholic Centre, Blacktown, was born in Canberra during the late 1970s, the eldest of 11 children in a Croatian Catholic family. “Age eight to eighteen was a time of discernment,” Fr Josip said. The family prayed the Rosary each night. “Dad...
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The Ijdabra Cross rises as a powerful witness of faith in the war torn Middle East. When the cross is complete, the Church of St Saba, Ijdabra, in Northern Lebanon will have the largest inhabitable cross in the Middle East. The 60 metre high cross will contain a small church and a...
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Ashleigh Green, a social worker at CatholicCare in the Diocese of Broken Bay, was the Australian Youth Delegate at the conference, ‘From Krakow to Panama: The Synod Journeying with Young People,’ held in Rome from April 5 to April 9. Ashleigh shared her hopes for the upcoming 2018 Synod...
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By Jordan Grantham, Catholic Outlook Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, known as Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, was born in the German town of Marktl, Bavaria, on April 16, 1927. April 16, 2017 was his 90th birthday. He was born on Easter morning and baptised that day with the newly blessed...
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St Patrick’s Cathedral, Parramatta is displaying a life sized replica of the Shroud of Turin in the Sacred Heart Chapel during Holy Week until April 18. The Shroud is the full length burial cloth that wrapped the body of Our Lord as He lay in the Holy Sepulchre, after...
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Today’s terror attack in London has been felt much closer to home in the Diocese of Parramatta. Amy Donohue, who works in Policy and Planning for the Diocese of Parramatta, was woken this morning by dozens of phone messages from friends and family back home in the United Kingdom....
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By Jordan Grantham, Catholic Outlook Families, friends and parishioners came together at the St Patrick’s Family Festival, organised by the Diocese of Parramatta’s Life Marriage and Family Office (LMF), from 2-5pm on Saturday 18 March 2017. Most Rev Bishop Vincent Long OFM Conv, Bishop of Parramatta attended and...
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By Jordan Grantham, Catholic Outlook, March 2017 The Polish Dominicans are back for a new year of university chaplaincy at Western Sydney University (WSU). Fr Andrew Fornal OP, Fr Pawel Barszczewski OP and Fr Piotr Kruk OP are the three friars of the university chaplaincy. This year the chaplaincy...
Mass times, news and events in Western Sydney and the Blue Mountains will be just that little easier to find thanks to a new mobile app launched by the Diocese of Parramatta. The app comes as a response to Pope Francis’ call to find new ways of, “communicating the...
Fr Josip Kesina OFM, Rector of the Croatian Catholic Centre, Blacktown, was born in Canberra during the late 1970s, the eldest of 11 children in a Croatian Catholic family. “Age eight to eighteen was a time of discernment,” Fr Josip said. The family prayed the Rosary each night. “Dad...
The Ijdabra Cross rises as a powerful witness of faith in the war torn Middle East. When the cross is complete, the Church of St Saba, Ijdabra, in Northern Lebanon will have the largest inhabitable cross in the Middle East. The 60 metre high cross will contain a small church and a...
Ashleigh Green, a social worker at CatholicCare in the Diocese of Broken Bay, was the Australian Youth Delegate at the conference, ‘From Krakow to Panama: The Synod Journeying with Young People,’ held in Rome from April 5 to April 9. Ashleigh shared her hopes for the upcoming 2018 Synod...
By Jordan Grantham, Catholic Outlook Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, known as Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, was born in the German town of Marktl, Bavaria, on April 16, 1927. April 16, 2017 was his 90th birthday. He was born on Easter morning and baptised that day with the newly blessed...
St Patrick’s Cathedral, Parramatta is displaying a life sized replica of the Shroud of Turin in the Sacred Heart Chapel during Holy Week until April 18. The Shroud is the full length burial cloth that wrapped the body of Our Lord as He lay in the Holy Sepulchre, after...
Today’s terror attack in London has been felt much closer to home in the Diocese of Parramatta. Amy Donohue, who works in Policy and Planning for the Diocese of Parramatta, was woken this morning by dozens of phone messages from friends and family back home in the United Kingdom....
By Jordan Grantham, Catholic Outlook Families, friends and parishioners came together at the St Patrick’s Family Festival, organised by the Diocese of Parramatta’s Life Marriage and Family Office (LMF), from 2-5pm on Saturday 18 March 2017. Most Rev Bishop Vincent Long OFM Conv, Bishop of Parramatta attended and...
By Jordan Grantham, Catholic Outlook, March 2017 The Polish Dominicans are back for a new year of university chaplaincy at Western Sydney University (WSU). Fr Andrew Fornal OP, Fr Pawel Barszczewski OP and Fr Piotr Kruk OP are the three friars of the university chaplaincy. This year the chaplaincy...