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'Half a penny per pupil' - Meet one of the lay women who helped build Catholic education in Australia
22 July 2022BRIGID Dwyer was Australia's first native-born female school teacher and her story has come to life thanks to a biographical dictionary from Australian Catholic University. The Biographical Dictionary of Australian Catholic Educators chronicles the lives... - Author: The Catholic LeaderSTUDENTS at a Sippy Downs primary school are changing the world, one millilitre at a time. The Siena Catholic Primary School team won the 2022 STEM MAD showcase for their waterborne disease detector Crypto Scanner, which can easily and cheaply detect...
- Author: The Catholic LeaderVANESSA Comninos was asleep when Australia's Plenary Council was deliberating the role of women in the Catholic Church on July 5. Mrs Comninos, who is evangelisation director at Springfield parish, was in Greece on a holiday and had gone to bed "praying...
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Russell Crowe to star as the Vatican's chief exorcist in new film by Australian director
21 July 2022ACTOR Russell Crowe is set to star as the late Pauline Father Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican's former chief exorcist, in an upcoming movie, The Pope's Exorcist. Fr Amorth performed an estimated 100,000 exorcisms up until the time of his death at age 91... - Author: The Catholic LeaderA continuing siege of Tigray by Ethiopian government forces is frustrating church efforts to deliver humanitarian aid to millions of vulnerable people in the northern region of the nation. Catholic leaders said people remain isolated and are struggling...
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Shroud of Turin is a puzzle that only fits together one way, former Australian journalist says
20 July 2022THE Shroud of Turin is a four and a half metre long, one metre wide linen cloth bearing the front and back image of a scourged, crucified man. Since it appeared in 1578, many believers have venerated the Shroud as the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. It... - Author: The Catholic LeaderFOLLOWING the kidnapping of two Catholic priests in central Nigeria last week, the local diocese announced yesterday that one of the two priests had escaped, while the other was "brutally" killed. Father John Mark Cheitnum and Father Denatus Cleopas were...
- Author: The Catholic LeaderPERTH Archbishop Timothy Costelloe was elected Australian Catholic Bishops Conference president in May and was interviewed by ACBC media blog recently. In his interview, Archbishop Costelloe reflected on the Plenary Council, the place of the Church in...
- Author: The Catholic LeaderAS one of the youngest members of the Plenary Council, 24-year-old Thomas Warren, says ecological conversion was, for him, the most significant motion passed at this months historic second assembly. "It was the one that I felt very strongly about," the...
- Author: The Catholic LeaderCATHOLICS must counter toxicity in social media, engage in dialogue and education to deal with "lies and misinformation", Pope Francis said in a message published on July 18. He called for the inclusion of currently excluded communities into "the digital...