Paying respects to Pope Francis in Rome and South Australia this weekend
The Pope’s funeral will be held at St Peter’s Basilica in Rome on Saturday at 10am local time (5.30pm ACT) and is expected to last about two and a half hours.
The Pope’s funeral will be held at St Peter’s Basilica in Rome on Saturday at 10am local time (5.30pm ACT) and is expected to last about two and a half hours.
A Sunday memorial service at St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral will be at the forefront of South Australia’s tributes to Pope Francis who died on Easter Monday.
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Catherine Edwards, a young Adelaide lawyer who has been campaigning at a global level against human trafficking, recently returned from Rome where she had an audience with Pope Francis.
In his apostolic exhortation Gaudete Et Exsultate (Rejoice and Be Glad) Pope Francis talks about the ‘call to holiness in today’s world’.
Pope Francis has appointed Perth-based priest, Fr George Kolodziej SDS, to be the fifth Bishop of Bunbury.
The love of God expressed through the human heart of Jesus is the theme of Pope Francis’ latest encyclical Dilexit Nos (He Loved Us).
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