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  • US bishops ask government to reassess drone policy
    The US bishops' conference has urged a public discussion on the use of unmanned targeted killings, also known as drones, and their moral implications, in letters to top government officials, reports the Catholic News Agency.

  • Relic of Archbishop Romero presented to Pope in sainthood push
    Pope Francis has received a bloodstained relic of slain Archbishop Oscar Romero as a gift from El Salvador’s President Mauricio Funes Cartagena, reports the Catholic News service in The Catholic Herald.

  • Vatican financial investigator says laws, roles will be strengthened
    The director of the Vatican's Financial Intelligence Authority (pictured) said the Vatican will further amend its finance-related laws in the coming months, increase screening of account holders at the Vatican bank and continue assessing the potential risk that accounts could be used for money laundering and the financing of terrorism, reports the Catholic News Service.

  • British faith heads condemn London attack
    A broad coalition of faith leaders have condemned the murder of a serving soldier in broad daylight in London yesterday afternoon by two men believed to be Islamist militants, reports The Tablet.

  • Pope says Christians can work with atheists
    Christians are called to welcome and cooperate with the good accomplished by members of other religions or no religion at all, promoting a culture of dialogue and peace, Pope Francis said on Wednesday, reports the Catholic news Service on NCR.

  • NSW CEC urges principals to meet MPs over Gonski funding
    The NSW Catholic Education Commission has sent a letter to diocesan directors and principals, urging them to seek immediate meetings with local federal MPs to query the shifting Gonski funding figures, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.

  • Theologian says persecution of early Christians is a myth
    Growing up Catholic in England, Candida Moss felt secure in life, yet was told in church that Christians have been persecuted since the dawn of Christianity. Now, as an adult and a theologian, she wants to set the record straight. Too many modern Christians invoke, to lamentable effect, an ancient history of persecution that didn’t exist, Moss argues in her newly published book, The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented A Story of Martyrdom, reports Religion News Service on Ucanews. 

  • Featured website - Caritas Australia Global Gifts
    Caritas Australia's Global Gifts section has a wide range of special gift ideas.

  • A Place for Me
    Actor Greg Kinnear plays an author who, since his divorce, is struggling with writer's block in A Place for Me. He lives with his two children who have also been affected by the separation and face their own relationship dramas as a consequence.

  • Questions linger after dynamic sisters' meeting
    It became clear during the recent meeting with Pope Francis in Rome is that while LCWR’s troubles may be an important part of the story, they remain only a portion of the larger global picture coming to light among leaders of women religious around the world, writes NCR in an editorial.

 

Vision Statement

We are:

* a welcoming community which reaches out to all
* celebrating Christ's presence
* joyfully living out our Christian calling across distance and diversity
This vision states that as a Diocese, we aim to be a welcoming, missionary, centred on Christ, and each striving to live one's particular vocation.
It is in living out our calling that we praise God, follow Christ, influence society and achieve the goal of eternal life won for us by Christ.
In the parishes we have encouraged people to measure whatever they do against this Diocesan vision.
                                                                                                                                                                                 Most Rev. Justin Bianchini, DD

Random Homilies: Year A

Palm Sunday - Homily Notes

Introduction:
(1) All four Gospels tell of the life of Christ differently. But in telling the story of the Passion, th

 
2nd Sunday of Easter - Doubting Thomas

Buzzword - Doubting Thomas!
Increasingly, it would seem, we live in an age in which trust has become a scarce commodity

 
2nd Sunday of Lent - Transformation

Buzzword - Transformation
The point of the Christian exercise is transformation - to find spiritual value in all that w

 

Random Homilies: Year B

1st Sunday of Advent - Hope

Buzzword - Hope
"Hope springs eternal in the human breast". So wrote Alexander Pope, English poet and essayis

 
6th Sunday in OT - Sin

Buzzword - SIN
- the prime cause of spiritual illness, and, therefore, the main objective for Christ's healing powe

 
9th Sunday in OT - The Day of the Lord

Buzzword - The Day of the Lord
The English name, Sunday, unlike the Latin, Domini dies,(day of the Lord) does not refle

 

Random Homilies: Year C

4th Sunday of Lent - Reconciliation

Buzz word - Reconciliation
Unfortunately, quarrels and disagreements are part of life. Situations arise in which real,

 
8th Sunday in OT - Words Words Words

Buzzword - Words! Words! Words!
How true it is that, sometimes, "silence speaks more loudly than words". In a

 
2nd Sunday of Lent - Transformation

Buzzword - Transformation
To change from one level of living to another, be it higher or lower. Through Baptism, a pers