Last month the University of New South Wales student magazine called "Tharunka", published an extremely offensive and obsecene image that directly attacked Christians.

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Catholics credit the strong Southern sense of community, and dialogue with faithful Protestants, with helping to power the Church’s growth there.

Hymn for St. Joseph the Worker Sons of Labor, Dear to Jesus

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On Thursday, 25 April, Australians and New Zealnders around the world will stand together as an occasion of national remembrance.

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Catholic men studying to be priests have expressed their “deepest appreciation” for words and prayers of encouragement from grade school students participating in a New Jersey letter-writing campaign. In a project sponsored by the New Jersey State Council of the Knights of Columbus, Catholic grade school students are able to send words of encouragement to men studying to be priests in the United States and Rome. Visit this article to read more.

The number of people who have left the Catholic church is huge. We all have heard stories about why people leave. Parents share stories about their children. Academics talk about their students. Everyone has a friend who has left.

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The local YMCA in Waco, Texas has kicked out the nation’s biggest abortion business from an event, after pro-life advocates raised a stink about its cooperation with Planned Parenthood. After little more than 24 hours following an alert to its members, Pro-Life Waco persuaded the Waco YMCA to divorce from Planned Parenthood for its April 6 youth program for girls. Although the national women’s branch, YWCA, has a relationship with Planned Parenthood, the local YMCA event went on without the abortion giant.

It's a currency tied to no country, under the control of no central bank and you won't find it minted on plastic, paper or metal.

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Australian cafes are looking to introduce "suspended coffees" where you order and pay for your own coffee and a "suspended" coffee for someone who can't afford to buy one for themselves, The Age reports. The idea began in Naples about 10 years ago and spread to Bulgaria - one of Europe's poorest countries - earlier this year after widespread social unrest. Now Rita Capra and Declan Jacobs want ''suspended coffee'' to become a regular order at cafes in Melbourne and Sydney.

Pope Francis made his first general audience appeal for a beleaguered nation today, asking for an end to violence in the Central African Republic.

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