One young man's dream of becoming a Swiss Guard began with a postage stamp. Michael Odermatt said that when he was a small child, his godfather gave him a stamp depicting the ornately dressed papal soldier "and I was fascinated by that image and wanted to know everything about the Swiss Guard." Visit this article to read more.

On 19 May a group of friends at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney will run in the city's annual Sydney Morning Herald half-marathon as part of their fund raising efforts to the memory of much-loved fellow student, 23 year old Christopher Drake who lost his life in heavy seas off North Curl Curl Beach in March this year.

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Today’s Catholic Techie, Laura Bradley, has a story that struck me as remarkable. I’ll let her tell it herself:

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Before a ballroom packed with people who once might have shunned his words, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, told an audience of evangelical Christians on Saturday night that “the transformation of a culture is a most heroic cause indeed.”

In 1997 Rosaria M. Champagne was a lesbian feminist English professor at Syracuse University in New York, specialising in gay and lesbian studies, living with her girlfriend and sporting a butch haircut. Today, Rosaria Champagne Butterfield is a home-schooling mother of four adopted children in Purcellville, West Virginia, married to a pastor of the reformed Presbyterian Church. What happened to bring about this transformation? Visit this article to find out...

Church leaders have told the British government that members of the royal family who marry Catholics under recently passed legislation will not be obliged to bring up their children in the Catholic faith, reports the Catholic News Service.

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A young man with Down syndrome who really wasn’t supposed to be the batboy, put some spring in the Reds’ steps. The remarkable thing wasn’t that Teddy Kremer retrieved bats and foul balls and brought baseballs to the home plate umpire, it is that he did it with such unbridled joy.

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“It is very important to preserve the prerogatives of the Successor of St Peter, the Pope and Bishop of Rome. He decides. We are there to help and be useful if we can, but we are nothing more than that”: these are the words of Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney Australia who is also a member of the select advisory group of prelates recently created by the Holy Father.

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Death of Bishop William Murray, 21 April, 2013

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After becoming a father and reevaluating what’s really important in life, Chris Holmes decided to quit his 9-to-5 job as a Border Agency official at London’s Stansted Airport so he could pursue his dream job running his own cake business. He tendered his resignation on his 31st birthday.

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