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'You are not alone': the four words 150 women came to Punchbowl to hear
1+ hour, 20+ min ago (711+ words) Ask the women from all over Sydney who filled St Jerome’s church, Punchbowl on 1 August what they had been taught about their own bodies, and the answer came back the same from teenagers, mothers and grandmothers alike. Almost nothing. “When…...
New reading guide explores Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical
1+ hour, 51+ min ago (538+ words) The tech bros say, “technology is amazing.” Pope Leo XIV counters with an ancient truth: people are amazing. Dr Walker’s upcoming reading guide, Magnificent Humanity: An Australian Group Reading Guide to Pope Leo’s Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas breaks open the encyclical…...
New Notre Dame report lists 12 key proposals to improve seminary formation
6+ hour, 28+ min ago (232+ words) A new report by the University of Notre Dame offers 12 key recommendations to improve seminarian formation, focusing on the more effective use of psychological services, while better addressing special needs and supporting chastity and celibacy. The university’s McGrath Institute for…...
The mates who'll carry St Joseph through the night
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (824+ words) Two schoolmates will shoulder the statue of St Joseph across Sydney next month. Their friendship is the reason they are walking. Cam McAuley was the new boy at Redfield College, Dural, when he met Michael Badaoui in Year 5. Twenty years…...
Can chatbots find God in their work?
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (191+ words) Yet there’s something missing with work powered by AI. I’d sum it up in the word diligent. We use it to describe a good worker. But it comes from the Latin word diligere, which means to love. AI cannot work…...
How can we flourish as death approaches?
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (713+ words) Most people have never heard of multiple myeloma, but every year nearly 3000 Australians are diagnosed with this life-limiting blood cancer. It can lead to infections, broken bones, kidney problems, anaemia, and possibly death. With modern drugs, it is treatable – but…...
UK Catholic leaders praise Burnham on end-of-life care
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (172+ words) UK Catholic leaders welcomed Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s call to strengthen palliative and social care, saying it offers a better path than legalising assisted dying. Archbishop John Sherrington of Liverpool praised Burnham’s commitment to properly fund end-of-life care ahead of…...
People are not data to be optimised, says expert
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (591+ words) Lorrimar is the director of the Centre for Technology and Human Futures at the University of Notre Dame Australia. Rather than seeing people as beings created for relationship, Lorrimar said, contemporary society often views individuals as projects to be measured,…...
Church leaders explore AI, friendship, and evangelisation in Manila
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (674+ words) Opening the conference with Mass, Cardinal José Advincula urged the church to embrace a style of evangelisation rooted in friendship, proposing gentleness, steadfast accompaniment and mutual self-giving as the hallmarks of missionary discipleship. He noted that evangelisation often requires the…...
Sydney Archdiocese prepares to ordain three new priests
1+ week, 30+ min ago (614+ words) Three men preparing to be ordained priests for the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney on 8 August at St Mary’s Cathedral have reflected on the faith, formation and moments of grace that led them to answer God’s call. For Deacons Lucas Golab,…...