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APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION. GAUDETE ET EXSULTATE
OF THE HOLY FATHER..... FRANCIS
ON THE CALL TO HOLINESS IN TODAY’S WORLD
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OF THE HOLY FATHER..... FRANCIS
ON THE CALL TO HOLINESS IN TODAY’S WORLD
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Legal battle looms as Calvary Health Care challenges hospital takeover
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Albanese supports ACT Government on Calvary acquisition
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This is WHY we must save Calvary Hospital and HOW we do it
Dr Joanna Howe
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Dr Joanna Howe
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Dr Joanna Howe is a Professor of Law, Rhodes Scholar and mother of 5. Her channel features videos from Dr Joanna Howe on motherhood, life and purpose, career and social justice. As an academic Dr Howe examines vulnerability in all its forms and has a particular interest in the most voiceless and vulnerable. She is the current holder of an Australian Research Council Linkage grant investigating undocumented migrants on Australian farms. She is the co-founder of Enid Lyons List which aims to equip and empower prolife women to enter public life.
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The REAL reason behind the compulsory acquisition of Calvary Hospital. Dr Joanna Howe.
1,007 views May 14, 2023
The announcement by the ACT government that it is compulsorily acquiring Calvary Hospital has far-reaching implications for freedom of religion and freedom of conscience in Australia. The ACT government asserts this decision has nothing to do with religion arguing that negotiations with Calvary had broken down because they had been unable to reach an outcome that met the health needs of the Territory community. Reading between the lines, this compulsory acquisition is because Calvary Hospital and the ACT government had a fundamental disconnect over the definition of healthcare. For the government, abortion is non-negotiable, whereas Calvary Hospital relies on institutional conscientious objection to refrain from participating in abortion based on a view that it is ethically wrong to intentionally end a human life. As this video exposes, the decision to compulsorily acquire Calvary Hospital is about overriding institutional conscientious objection through other means and we need to speak up and call out this decision as undermining Australia's long-standing pluralist tradition. Australia is a multi-faith and multicultural society which tolerates a healthy diversity of views and respects freedom of conscience.
The REAL reason behind the compulsory acquisition of Calvary Hospital. Dr Joanna Howe.
1,007 views May 14, 2023
The announcement by the ACT government that it is compulsorily acquiring Calvary Hospital has far-reaching implications for freedom of religion and freedom of conscience in Australia. The ACT government asserts this decision has nothing to do with religion arguing that negotiations with Calvary had broken down because they had been unable to reach an outcome that met the health needs of the Territory community. Reading between the lines, this compulsory acquisition is because Calvary Hospital and the ACT government had a fundamental disconnect over the definition of healthcare. For the government, abortion is non-negotiable, whereas Calvary Hospital relies on institutional conscientious objection to refrain from participating in abortion based on a view that it is ethically wrong to intentionally end a human life. As this video exposes, the decision to compulsorily acquire Calvary Hospital is about overriding institutional conscientious objection through other means and we need to speak up and call out this decision as undermining Australia's long-standing pluralist tradition. Australia is a multi-faith and multicultural society which tolerates a healthy diversity of views and respects freedom of conscience.
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Diggers’ legacy a reminder of hope in troubled times - THE AUSTRALIAN - ANZAC DAY - Commentary
JOHN COLEMAN
JOHN COLEMAN
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Chantal Delsol - Christians have the opportunity to be better as a minority.
Chantal Delsol, a French Catholic intellectual of great renown, has recently published a provocative essay: "The End of Christianity". With a critical vision, Delsol explains in this interview some aspects of this crisis, the confrontation with modernity,
the ontological rupture and the forecasts of hope for Catholics.
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Catholics have become a minority and their influence is diminishing. What should their attitude and priorities be?
Benedict XVI encouraged them to be "creative minorities that change the world".
-Yes, Benedict XVI is right, when a minority is courageous and educated, it can change societies. It seems to me that today Catholics represent that minority in a country like France. The great danger from which these minorities must be protected, and to which they are so easily subjected, is extremism. If, horrified by the new society they see unfolding before their eyes, they take the opposite direction with a language of excess, they will never regain the upper hand. I think that is the most difficult thing: to maintain balance while fighting against extremes.
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Chantal Delsol, a French Catholic intellectual of great renown, has recently published a provocative essay: "The End of Christianity". With a critical vision, Delsol explains in this interview some aspects of this crisis, the confrontation with modernity,
the ontological rupture and the forecasts of hope for Catholics.
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Catholics have become a minority and their influence is diminishing. What should their attitude and priorities be?
Benedict XVI encouraged them to be "creative minorities that change the world".
-Yes, Benedict XVI is right, when a minority is courageous and educated, it can change societies. It seems to me that today Catholics represent that minority in a country like France. The great danger from which these minorities must be protected, and to which they are so easily subjected, is extremism. If, horrified by the new society they see unfolding before their eyes, they take the opposite direction with a language of excess, they will never regain the upper hand. I think that is the most difficult thing: to maintain balance while fighting against extremes.
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SENSUS FIDEI - SENSUS FIDELIUM - SENTIRE CUM ECCLESIA
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Armidale Diocese appoints new administrator
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PRAYER FOR NEW BISHOP FOR OUR DIOCESE.
All glory to You, Lord our God, our eternal Shepherd and Guide In your faithfulness, grant to the Diocese of Armidale a shepherd whose watchful care and kindly zeal will be a constant witness of faith and love to the people entrusted to his care. In Your love for us, may he strive to live more and more each day with holiness of life and heroic virtue so that he will lead Your holy people in all truth by being Christ’s heart of mercy, voice of hope, and mind of justice. Prepare him, we humbly pray, to fill our minds and hearts with the truth of the Gospel, the power of the sacraments, and the desire to actively work to build up your holy Church. Through Jesus Christ. Amen. We ask this through Jesus Christ, your Son and our Lord, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen |
Armidale’s College of Consultors has elected Msgr Edward Wilkes as diocesan administrator to lead the regional New South Wales diocese following Bishop Michael Kennedy’s installation as the Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle.
As Diocesan Administrator, Msgr Wilkes will lead the diocese during the period until the ordination and installation of the 11th Bishop of Armidale. Msgr Wilkes was the diocese’s vicar general under Bishop Kennedy. He is the parish priest of St Joseph’s parish in Uralla and parish administrator of St Patrick’s Parish, Walcha. |
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I wouldn’t want to be fussy about that [Communion in the hand]. It was done in the early Church. A reverent manner of receiving Communion in the hand is in itself a perfectly reasonable way to receive Communion.
Pope Benedict XVI- God and the World, p,41.
“Ubi Petrus Ibi Ecclesia,” “Where Peter is, there is the Church”,
is the famous quote from St Ambrose of Milan.
There is only ONE ROMAN MISSAL at any time - there is only ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE ROMAN MISSAL…the GIRM.
Pope Benedict XVI- God and the World, p,41.
“Ubi Petrus Ibi Ecclesia,” “Where Peter is, there is the Church”,
is the famous quote from St Ambrose of Milan.
There is only ONE ROMAN MISSAL at any time - there is only ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE ROMAN MISSAL…the GIRM.
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INTERNATIONAL THEOLOGICAL COMMISSION
SYNODALITY IN THE LIFE AND MISSION OF THE CHURCH
PRELIMINARY NOTE
During its 9th Quinquennium, the International Theological Commission undertook a study of synodality in the life and mission of the Church. The work was carried out by a specific sub-committee, whose president was Mgr. Mario Ángel Flores Ramos and whose members were Sr. Prudence Allen RSM, Sr. Alenka Arko of the Loyola Community, Mgr. Antonio Luiz Catelan Ferreira, Mgr. Piero Coda, Rev. Carlos María Galli, Rev. Gaby Alfred Hachem, Prof. Héctor Gustavo Sánchez Rojas SCV, Rev. Nicholaus Segeja M’hela and Fr. Gerard Francisco Timoner III OP.
General discussions on this theme took place during the meetings of the sub-committee and during the Plenary Sessions of the Commission itself, held between 2014 and 2017. The present text was approved by the majority of the members of the Commission during its 2017 Plenary Session, by means of a written vote. It was later approved by the President, His Eminence Cardinal Luis F. Ladaria S.J., Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, who authorised its publication on 2nd March 2018, after receiving a favourable response from Pope Francis.
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SYNODALITY IN THE LIFE AND MISSION OF THE CHURCH
PRELIMINARY NOTE
During its 9th Quinquennium, the International Theological Commission undertook a study of synodality in the life and mission of the Church. The work was carried out by a specific sub-committee, whose president was Mgr. Mario Ángel Flores Ramos and whose members were Sr. Prudence Allen RSM, Sr. Alenka Arko of the Loyola Community, Mgr. Antonio Luiz Catelan Ferreira, Mgr. Piero Coda, Rev. Carlos María Galli, Rev. Gaby Alfred Hachem, Prof. Héctor Gustavo Sánchez Rojas SCV, Rev. Nicholaus Segeja M’hela and Fr. Gerard Francisco Timoner III OP.
General discussions on this theme took place during the meetings of the sub-committee and during the Plenary Sessions of the Commission itself, held between 2014 and 2017. The present text was approved by the majority of the members of the Commission during its 2017 Plenary Session, by means of a written vote. It was later approved by the President, His Eminence Cardinal Luis F. Ladaria S.J., Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, who authorised its publication on 2nd March 2018, after receiving a favourable response from Pope Francis.
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APOSTOLIC LETTER
DESIDERIO DESIDERAVI
OF THE HOLY FATHER - FRANCIS
TO THE BISHOPS, PRIESTS AND DEACONS,TO CONSECRATED MEN AND WOMEN AND TO THE LAY FAITHFUL
ON THE LITURGICAL FORMATION OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD
DESIDERIO DESIDERAVI
OF THE HOLY FATHER - FRANCIS
TO THE BISHOPS, PRIESTS AND DEACONS,TO CONSECRATED MEN AND WOMEN AND TO THE LAY FAITHFUL
ON THE LITURGICAL FORMATION OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD
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ARCHBISHOP TIMOTHY COSTELLOE SDB - (PERTH WA)
PRESIDENT OF THE AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS CONFERENCE
PRESIDENT OF THE AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS CONFERENCE
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Bishop Greg Homeming's homilies.
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Dear friends, your time here in Rome coincides with the synodal journey that the whole Church is presently undertaking, a journey that involves listening, to the Holy Spirit and to one another, in order to discern how to help God’s holy people live his gift of communion and become missionary disciples. This is also the challenge and task you are called to take up as you walk together along the path that leads to priestly ordination and pastoral service.
In this regard, I want to share with you some brief reflections on three elements that I think are essential to priestly formation: dialogue, communion and mission. We can see these in the passage from Saint John’s Gospel about Andrew and another disciple of John the Baptist who meet Jesus, stay with him for a time and then lead others, particularly Simon Peter, to encounter the Lord (cf. Jn 1:35-42).
In this regard, I want to share with you some brief reflections on three elements that I think are essential to priestly formation: dialogue, communion and mission. We can see these in the passage from Saint John’s Gospel about Andrew and another disciple of John the Baptist who meet Jesus, stay with him for a time and then lead others, particularly Simon Peter, to encounter the Lord (cf. Jn 1:35-42).
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HOMILIES OF POPE FRANCIS
Just WHAT DOES THE CHURCH TEACH ABOUT EVERYONE ???
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HAVING A LOOK AT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AUSTRALIA
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THE PEOPLE OF GOD & LUMEN GENIUM VATICAN II
One of the themes most emphasized by the documents of Vatican II was the importance of the People of God. Lumen gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, has 41 references to the People of God. This is the subject of Chapter II, following Chapter I, which speaks of The Mystery of the Church. In this Chapter II, the document presents the People of God as sharing in the priestly, prophetic, and kingly power of Christ.
One of the themes most emphasized by the documents of Vatican II was the importance of the People of God. Lumen gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, has 41 references to the People of God. This is the subject of Chapter II, following Chapter I, which speaks of The Mystery of the Church. In this Chapter II, the document presents the People of God as sharing in the priestly, prophetic, and kingly power of Christ.
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Social Justice Statements
In a tradition reaching back to 1940, the Australian Catholic Bishops release major social justice statements each year in time for Social Justice Sunday. Through this tradition they contribute to the development of local Catholic Social Teaching. The statements encourage the Catholic community to reflect and act on social, economic and ecological issues. They remind us of the social dimension of the mission of the Church.
socialjustice.catholic.org.au/resources/social-justice-statements/
In a tradition reaching back to 1940, the Australian Catholic Bishops release major social justice statements each year in time for Social Justice Sunday. Through this tradition they contribute to the development of local Catholic Social Teaching. The statements encourage the Catholic community to reflect and act on social, economic and ecological issues. They remind us of the social dimension of the mission of the Church.
socialjustice.catholic.org.au/resources/social-justice-statements/
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CODES OF CONDUCT TO BE DEVELOPED FOR BISHOPS PRIESTS DEACONS - CHANCELLORS AND ALL STEWARDS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AUSTRALIA. See: OUR COMMON MISSION below
Church publishes fifth annual report on child safety
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OUR PARISH LEARNING IN THE FAITH AND PRACTICE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
DISCERNING THE WAY OF THE LORD ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT WHO IS MOVING IN AND THROUGH THE CHURCH
AVOIDING THE SLIDE INTO REACTIONARY CULTISM AND IDEOLOGICALLY DRIVEN & DIVISIVE CAMPS
BEING THE BODY OF CHRIST - THE PEOPLE OF GOD - MISSIONARY DISCIPLES IN OUR TIME OUR CENTURY
Sentire cum Ecclesia - Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam
DISCERNING THE WAY OF THE LORD ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT WHO IS MOVING IN AND THROUGH THE CHURCH
AVOIDING THE SLIDE INTO REACTIONARY CULTISM AND IDEOLOGICALLY DRIVEN & DIVISIVE CAMPS
BEING THE BODY OF CHRIST - THE PEOPLE OF GOD - MISSIONARY DISCIPLES IN OUR TIME OUR CENTURY
Sentire cum Ecclesia - Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam
I wouldn’t want to be fussy about that [Communion in the hand].
It was done in the early Church.
A reverent manner of receiving Communion in the hand is in itself
a perfectly reasonable way to receive Communion.
Pope Benedict XVI - God and the World, p,410
It was done in the early Church.
A reverent manner of receiving Communion in the hand is in itself
a perfectly reasonable way to receive Communion.
Pope Benedict XVI - God and the World, p,410
"Those who reject the teaching of the Second Vatican Council are placing themselves outside the Church”. “Either you are with the Church and therefore you follow the council, or you interpret it in your own away – according to your desire – [and] you do not stand with the Church,” the Pope said.
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CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING
THE 7 PRINCIPLES:
DIGNITY
SOLIDARITY
THE COMMON GOOD
THE OPTION FOR THE POOR
PEACE
CARE OF CREATION
THE DIGNITY OF WORK & PARTICIPATION
THE 7 PRINCIPLES:
DIGNITY
SOLIDARITY
THE COMMON GOOD
THE OPTION FOR THE POOR
PEACE
CARE OF CREATION
THE DIGNITY OF WORK & PARTICIPATION
A Summary of the National Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Child Sexual Abuse
2021–2030 and its Action Plans
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A guide to the Church’s response to child sexual abuse
2021–2030 and its Action Plans
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A guide to the Church’s response to child sexual abuse
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TOWARDS A THEOLOGY OF SAFEGUARDING
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THE CATHOLIC PARISH & THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL
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Our Catholic Parish School
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St JOSEPH'S PRIMARY SCHOOL
CHURCH STREET
GLEN INNES NSW 2370
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St JOSEPH'S PRIMARY SCHOOL
CHURCH STREET
GLEN INNES NSW 2370
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St Joseph’s School is a co-educational Catholic Primary School. St Joseph’s School in Glen Innes was founded by the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart to provide quality Catholic Primary for boys and girls. The school is an integral part of the Glen Innes Parish Community and shares it’s task of imparting Catholic traditions while respecting and appreciating the traditions of other Christians.
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The CATHOLIC SCHOOL
ADVISORY COUNCIL 
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