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Pope Francis dedicated his general audience talk to the urgent need for young and old to come together so older people can share their faith and wisdom about the world. "Let's think about dialogue, about the alliance between old and young," he said, as...

CATHOLICS in Australia have expressed a strong need for a Church that is missionary and a Eucharistic community that is inclusive, a national document compiled for the global Synod on Synodality reveals. The document - known as the Australian Synthesis...

THE heart of hospital pastoral care is to intentionally engage in Mission, Centacare Pastoral Ministries director Judy Norris said. She said through each patient encounter, the pastoral carer is aware of the Spirit of God present and active as the animator...

Vatican News Paolo Ruffini, the Prefect of the Vatican's Dicastery for Communication, has addressed this year's SIGNIS World Congress in Seoul, recalling that "the only way to respond to the challenge of technology is not to think of it as an idol". There...

QUEENSLAND Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced a path to treaty between the state and First Nations people which includes a three-year truth telling and healing inquiry. Ms Palaszczuk said her government accepted all 22 recommendations from the...

MYANMAR's Catholic prelate, Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, has warned the military in his country is cracking down hard on dissident civilians and rebel armies in a campaign to gain undisputed control by the end of this year. "They [the military] are trying...

AUSTRALIAN Catholic University lecturer Dr Richard Galeano loves telling his students why he became a paramedic. "I was walking down Swanson Street in Melbourne when suddenly this ambulance came roaring down the tram tracks," he said with a wave of his...

The fire of faith should spur us to conversion, not lull us into complacency, Pope Francis said in his Angelus address Sunday. In his weekly message on the Gospel, the pope reflected on a passage from St. Luke, who wrote: "Jesus said to his disciples:...

More than 40 people -- mainly children -- have died in a fire in a Coptic Orthodox church in Giza Governorate, Egypt, on Sunday, according to government and church officials. Thirty-five children between two and six years of age were among the victims...

AUSTRALIAN children's data is sold everyday for advertising purposes without any legal repercussions. Veronica Hosking wanted to change this. Mrs Hosking worked as the general manager of Lookaroo, an Australian owned and operated private search engine...