Opinion
It is a feature of our current times, in large cities especially, that people do not know their neighbours. Such is the pace of modern life; such is the transitory nature of people’s stay in one place that the sheer time needed for such bonds to develop is often not there.
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The Vietnamese Catholic Community welcomed Archbishop Patrick O’Regan to celebrate the Lunar New Year’s Eve Mass recently.
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In our continuing series on the Interim Diocesan Pastoral Council Julian Nguyen and Sarah Moffatt reflect on their involvement in the Church and their hopes for the future.
Members of the Vietnamese Catholic Community gathered to celebrate the ministry of long-serving Mercy Sister Maria Trang last month.
A social worker with strong ties to the Vietnamese Catholic Community has been appointed as the new coordinator of the Catholic Office for Youth and Young Adults (COYYA).
Sister Cecilia Nguyen’s own faith was nurtured under the dark cloud of Communism and has survived war, displacement and resettlement in a foreign land. But when the gentle 72-year-old Dominican Sister speaks of her 50 years as a vowed Religious, it is her role in passing on the faith to Vietnamese children and young people that is uppermost in her mind.
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