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Week 1
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From Subiaco to New Norcia: ‘The Companions’ complete eight-day pilgrimage
Forty-three pilgrims from across Australia walked the 157km Camino Salvado during August and September with the aim of deepening their spiritual lives.
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Emmanuel Catholic College has great success with cancer awareness campaign
The Emmanuel Catholic College community made a zealous effort to raise awareness and money for people diagnosed with cancer by sacrificing their hair in a school-wide campaign last month.
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Young Perth skater bound for glory at Youth Olympic Games
A Chisholm Catholic College student has been selected to participate in this month’s Youth Olympic Games.
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NATIONAL: ‘Joint-up thinking' the method forward for new Catholic Earthcare director
Building on the ecological work already underway within each diocese, the new Director of Catholic Earthcare Australia has pledged to act as a conduit for the good of “Our Common Home”.
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MOVIE REVIEW: Alien Technology takes over adopted teen in Kin
As scripted by Daniel Casey and directed by brothers Jonathan and Josh Baker, Kin (Summit), a gritty but somewhat intriguing crime thriller with an overlay of science fiction, explores shades of right and wrong via a road trip through seamy swaths of Rust Belt and rural America.
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INTERNATIONAL: Why the Church law forbids violating the seal of confession
The seal of confession is so important and sacred that a priest would be automatically excommunicated under canon law for directly revealing the contents of a confession.
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Catholic leaders vow the Church’s shameful history will never be repeated
Catholic leaders have last week announced they accept 98 per cent of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
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Top childbirth researcher joins effort to reduce caesarean births
A prominent researcher from The University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA) has joined an effort to dramatically reduce the number of medical interventions that occur during childbirth in Australia.
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Bishops confront challenge of homelessness in 2018-2019 Social Justice Statement
The Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference (ACBC) has this week called for Australians to consider those who are at risk of homelessness and housing insecurity in their just launched Social Justice Statement on 6 September at St Patrick’s Cathedral Hall, Parramatta NSW.
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US Cardinal invests new knights and dames of the Equestrian Order
Cardinal Edwin Frederick O’Brien, Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, made a rare appearance in Perth last weekend where he invested 10 new members into the Order.
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‘Listen attentively, look to the scriptures’ – Archbishop Costelloe on fallout of Royal Commission response
Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has last week released a Pastoral Letter lamenting the destruction caused in the Catholic Church by the hands of evil.
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‘Love, Sex and Relationships’ highlighted in latest teen handbook
The Archdiocese of Perth Safeguarding Office launched its second handbook, this time dedicated to teenagers aged 12 to 16, during the 2018 Child Protection Breakfast held at Duxton Hotel on Tuesday 4 September.
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Alpha course at Balcatta Parish brings life into the parish
Balcatta Parish St Lawrence and Mary Immaculate Church has been given a new lease of life following an Alpha Course.