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Entrust your hopes to God in January and they will carry you all year, Ashley Prisk writes

By Ashley Prisk JANUARY opens like a doorway into possibility, a threshold where routines return and hopes take shape. As the ...
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Pope Leo appoints ninth Bishop of Ballarat

HOBART priest Fr Mark William Freeman has been appointed the ninth Bishop of Ballarat by Pope Leo XIV. Pope Leo announced the ...
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Fr Ivan Hernon dies age 99, remembered for his love of serving God and people

RETIRED Brisbane priest Fr Ivan Hernon, 99, died last week on January 1.   A message from vicar general Fr Peter Dillon said ...
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Cardinals focus talks with Pope Leo on evangelisation and synodality, deferring liturgy and curia reform

POPE Leo XIV ended his first extraordinary consistory on Thursday calling for the College of Cardinals to act as a “community ...
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Vatican says more than 33 million pilgrims participated in Jubilee

More than 33.4 million pilgrims travelled to Rome to participate in the Jubilee of Hope, surpassing initial projections, the ...
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Phone app can animate dead loved ones with just three minutes of video

“I DIE the king’s good servant, but God’s first,” go the famous last words of St Thomas More but last words might just become a thing of the past. A new app available on your smartphone, 2wai, ...