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“I know the new pope, Leo XIV, very well,” Bishop Turley says, speaking from Chicago where he has “retired” to work with Augustinian pre-novices and assist with the archdiocese’s confirmation program. “He’s just a wonderful person…. If you commission him in something, you delegate something to him, you know...
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Deep listening has become a familiar and valued practice across the Diocese of Parramatta, and at St Thomas Aquinas Parish, Springwood, it’s now taking even deeper root. As part of their efforts to shape a new Parish Pastoral Plan, the parish’s Pastoral Council and parish administrator, Fr Chris del Rosario,...
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Francis was the first Latin American pope and the first from the order of the Jesuits, who are known for, among other things, their frontline work with society's most marginalised groups. ...
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Echoing his father, Augustine, Pope Leo emphasises that we never undertake this journey alone. The church is a ragtag community journeying together, like Chaucer’s rowdy pilgrims. So we walk together, he emphasizes over and over, “hand in hand with God and one another.”...
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For us Catholics, the election of a new Pope is always an assurance of both God’s continuing fidelity to God’s people and the enduring mission of the Church. On the one hand, in the election of a new Pope, the Church continues to be pastored by the Good Shepherd,...
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Read this two-part series on how recent visitors to the Diocese of Parramatta, Mother Corazon Salazar and her fellow sisters of Mary Queen of Heaven Missionaries (MQHM), have entered brothels and bars in the Philippines to rescue women and children from the clutches of sex trafficking, offering education, rehabilitation...
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Read this two-part series on how recent visitors to the Diocese of Parramatta, Mother Corazon Salazar and her fellow sisters of Mary Queen of Heaven Missionaries (MQHM), have entered brothels and bars in the Philippines to rescue women and children from the clutches of sex trafficking, offering education, rehabilitation...
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My call was not so clear or compelling. What I remember about being called to mission and religious life is fuzzy. I was a young sixth grader in Catholic school and, out of the blue, I wanted to go to Africa....
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As missioners, we accompany the poor and ask ourselves what more we can do so that families can continue to live according to their traditions while having what is necessary to maintain, feed and educate their children in a more dignified life. That is why we are here, to...