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Story of the Magi shows how God turns wandering into journeying ...
Dec 25, 2024 · CHRISTMAS isn’t just about the birth of the Child who is God-with-us. It’s certainly about that, but it’s also about the human response to the birth of the Child. That’s why the Magi are such a part of the Christmas story. Their journey is the journey of every human being. It reaches deep into our […]
Pope Francis elevates Melbourne-based Ukrainian bishop to …
Dec 9, 2024 · MELBOURNE-based Ukrainian Bishop Mykola Bychok was made a cardinal by Pope Francis at a consistory in St Peter’s Basilica on Saturday. Cardinal Bychok, 44, who leads the Eparchy of Saints Peter and Paul of Melbourne for Ukrainian Catholics in Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania, became the youngest cardinal in the world.
Pondering the birth of Christ - The Catholic Leader
Dec 11, 2013 · But God’s ways are not man’s ways, and God clearly wanted it to be that way in order to teach us something. From the humble circumstances of Christ’s birth we learn, in the words of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, that “To become a child in relation to God is the condition for entering the kingdom.
True peace is found gazing into Christ’s crib, Toowoomba bishop …
Dec 26, 2024 · ONCE again, we gaze into the Christmas crib and are amazed by its simplicity. It is easy to forget that this tiny baby also cried as all babies do. Baby tears are real and later the same Jesus would weep over Jerusalem, and he wept at …
Christmas is a time to give thanks for the peace we enjoy in …
Dec 27, 2024 · By Rockhampton Bishop Michael McCarthy. MY mind goes back to this time, two years ago when I visited the Holy Lands. The diocesan pilgrimage began in Jordan where we visited the Baptismal site, climbed Mt Nebo where Moses glimpsed the Promised Land, travelled to Nazareth where the Angel announced to a young woman she was to bear a son, Bethlehem where the Prince of Peace was born and Jerusalem ...
Bishop Tim Norton shares his happiness to be with the people of …
Dec 5, 2024 · CHURCH leaders have welcomed the installation of the third Bishop of Broome Tim Norton at a Mass at St Mary’s College last night. Australian Catholic Bishops Conference president and Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe installed Bishop Norton. He was joined by Geraldton Bishop Michael Morrissey, Australia’s Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Charles Balvo, Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge and […]
New document highlights Catholics, Jews ‘walking together’
Mar 22, 2023 · THE Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has launched a document highlighting Christianity’s unique relationship with Judaism and celebrating the positive relationship the two faiths enjoy in Australia. “Walking Together: Catholics and Jews in the Australian Context” comes 30 years after the Bishops Conference published a set of guidelines and recommendations to enhance Catholic-Jewish ...
Gen Z overturns long-held assumptions as trends show young …
Dec 12, 2024 · RELIGION researchers have long taken for granted that women were just more religious than men – but new research might flip that trend on its head. Findings from the Australian Community Survey run by NCLS Research show males in Gen Z, measured as 18-27 year olds in 2022, were more likely to attend church than […]
The story of St Francis and the Sultan - The Catholic Leader
Oct 4, 2024 · IN 1219, at the height of the Fifth Crusade, St Francis travelled to the Middle East with the aim of converting the Sultan to Christianity and ending the bloodshed. The battle lines were at a standstill. Both the Christian and Muslim forces had suffered losses. Francis crossed enemy lines to meet Sultan Malik-el-Kamil, the nephew […]