He is Risen! | Bishop Brian Mascord's Easter Message 2018
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“He is risen!” (Matt 28:6)
Everything that matters in...
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Download a PDF copy of Bishop Brian Mascord's Easter Message 2018
“He is risen!” (Matt 28:6)
Everything that matters in...
On Monday 19 March 2018, Bishop Emeritus Peter Ingham was honoured in style at The Cube (located at Campbelltown Catholic Club) with over 500 guests in attendance from around the Diocese and Peter’s family and friends throughout Australia. One of the guests...
“For all things give thanks” (1 Thess 5:18).
In one of the largest Catholic episcopal ordinations in Australian history, a “full-house” of some 4,500 guests, including the Apostolic Nuncio in Australia, His Excellency Most Reverend Adolfo...
Fr Francis Tran, parish priest at St John the Evangelist Catholic Parish Dapto, was today awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to the Catholic Church in Australia and the community.
Fr Francis said his receipt of the Australia Day honour is...
Date: Thursday 22 February 2018
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: WIN Entertainment Centre, Wollongong (Corner of Harbour and Crown Streets)
You are warmly invited to one of the farewell Masses that are held in four locations around our Diocese. Bishop Peter will be presiding and preaching at each Mass and it will be the last opportunity for...
‘The Final Report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was delivered to the Governor-General of Australia and released today. Click here for a link to the final...
The Holy Father has today appointed Fr Brian Mascord, currently the Vicar General of the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle, the fifth Bishop of Wollongong.
Australian Catholic Bishops Conference president Archbishop Denis Hart said Bishop-Elect Mascord brings a wealth of experience in...
Fr John Joseph Therry, our pioneer priest, claims our respect based on a somewhat unglamorous, yet quite real basis, he claims our respect because he came, and he remained.
On the foundations prepared by lay people (1788-1820), John Joseph Therry our first officially...
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Sometimes the facts do more than speak for themselves. They cut through the confected edifice of an institution more obsessed with its image than its ethos.
Such is the case with the Catholic Church and the scandal of the sexual abuse of children by priests and...
Over the course of the next two weeks many Australians will be celebrating two solemn memorials: Good Friday and ANZAC Day. Don’t disconnect them, both are inextricably linked. In the Gospels, Jesus calls us his friends proclaiming, “A man can have no greater love...
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