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Church and community leaders have expressed shock and sadness at the unexpected death of Cardinal George Pell in Rome last week, but paid tribute to him as a man of faith who provided strong and clear leadership.
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With a long experience of persecution, the Christians of Baghdeda know that the bad times might return but they believe that “a Church that is not persecuted is a Church that does not carry Christ”, writes Filipe D’Avillez from Aid to the Church in Need.
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Distributing a simple meal of pasta, fish and rice to more than 900 homeless people in one sitting was just one of the moving experiences of a trip to the Philippines for Noel Mifsud, a Knight and member of the national executive of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in Australia.
The Fifth Plenary Council of Australia and the global Synod on Synodality were key discussion points for Australian Catholic Bishops Conference president Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB and Pope Francis when they met recently.
In his homily during Mass on the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Francis says Jesus’ words to St Peter – “Do you love Me? Feed My sheep” – are also addressed to the Church today. Christopher Wells, Vatican News, reports.
Catholic Mission celebrates World Mission Month in October, with the international agency calling for urgent assistance for communities devastated by war and famine in Ethiopia.
Caritas Australia has joined many of Australia’s leading aid and development organisations to urge the Australian Government to help prevent a humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa, Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen.
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