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• World Youth Day week in Photos - 23 Jul 2008
  A photographic collage of World Youth Day in Sydney. Photos by Alphonsus Fok and David Tang.



• Press Release of the Holy See Press Office at the end of the proposed meeting with the Holy Father of a representative group of persons who have been abused by members of the clergy - 21 Jul 2008
  As an expression of his ongoing pastoral concern for those who have been abused by members of the clergy, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI today celebrated Mass with a representative group of victims.



• Pope Benedict XVI - Address of farewell and thankyou to volunteers - 21 Jul 2008
  Text of Pope Benedict's address to volunteers and organisers of World Youth Day



• Pope Benedict XVI - Farewell Address at Sydney Airport - 21 Jul 2008
  Text of Pope Benedict's farewell address at Sydney Airport



• Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko - address at conclusion of World Youth Day Mass - 20 Jul 2008
  Text of Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko's address at the conclusion of the World Youth Day Mass



• Cardinal George Pell - Address to the Holy Father at World Youth Day Mass - 20 Jul 2008
  Text of Cardinal George Pell's address to the Holy Father at the World Youth Day Mass



• Pope Benedict XVI - Angelus Dominus and announcement of Madrid for WYD 2011 - 20 Jul 2008
  Text of Pope Benedict's words spoken before the Angelus and his announcement of Madrid as the next host city of World Youth Day in 2011.



• Pope Benedict XVI - Homily at World Youth Day Mass - 20 Jul 2008
  Text of Pope Benedict's homily at World Youth Day Mass - Southern Cross Precinct - Sunday July20



• Pope Benedict XVI - Address at Evening Vigil - 20 Jul 2008
  Address of Pope Benedict XVI at Vigil Gathering - Southern Cross Precinct - July 19



• Pope Benedict XVI - Address at meeting with disadvantaged youth - 19 Jul 2008
  Text of Pope Benedict's speech at meeting with disadvantaged youth - University of Notre Dame - July 18.



• ACBC President, Archbishop Philip Wilson - comments to the Holy Father at luncheon with Australian Bishops - 19 Jul 2008
  Text of Archbishop Philip Wilson's comments to the Holy Father at luncheon with the Australian Bishops, St Mary's Cathedral House.



• Pope Benedict XVI - Homily at Mass with clergy and religious - 19 Jul 2008
  Text of Pope Benedict's Homily at a Mass with clergy, religious and laypeople, with the dedication of the altar, at St Mary's Cathedral



• Pope Benedict XVI - Address at Ecumenical Meeting - Thursday Juy 18 - 18 Jul 2008
  Text of Pope Benedict's Address to an Ecumenical Meeting



• Pope Benedict XVI - Address to Interfaith Meeting - 18 Jul 2008
  Text of Pope Benedict's address to Interfaith Meeting



• Pope Benedict XVI - Address at Admiralty House - July 17, 2008 - 17 Jul 2008
  Text of Pope Benedict's address at the official welcome ceremony, Admiralty House, Sydney



• Pope Benedict XVI - Address for arrival at Barangaroo - Thursday July 17 - 17 Jul 2008
  Text of Pope Benedict's address to WYD pilgrims at Barangaroo



• Archbishop Philip Wilson, President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference - Welcome to the Holy Father at Barangaroo - 17 Jul 2008
  Holy Father, It is my very great honour to welcome you to Australia on behalf of all who are gathered here in your presence and the many others with us through the media and in spirit. I greet you in the love and peace of Our Lord Jesus Christ.



• Bishops of the world on WYD pilgrimage with their young people - 16 Jul 2008
  Four hundred Bishops from around the world have come as pilgrims to Sydney’s World Youth Day, accompanying the young people from their Dioceses.



• Cardinal George Pell - Homily for WYD Opening Mass - Barangaroo - Tuesday July 15, 2008 - 15 Jul 2008
  Text of Cardinal George Pell's homily at the WYD Opening Mass



• ACBC President urges all to get involved in WYD – wherever you are - 15 Jul 2008
  The President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, Archbishop Philip Wilson today welcomed the official opening of World Youth Day celebrations in Sydney and urged Catholics across Australia to become involved in the events in whatever way they could.



• Rewired offers parishes, schools, youth ministries a program to help keep the Spirit of WYD alive - 10 Jul 2008
  The excitement of World Youth Day is building and parishes, schools, movements and youth ministry teams are being invited to tap into that excitement in a lasting way with a new program aimed at connecting young people more deeply with Jesus Christ and their parish community.



• Chief Executive Officer appointed for National Catholic Education Commission - 1 Jul 2008
  Bishop Gerard Holohan, Chairman of the Bishops Commission for Catholic Education, announced today the appointment of Dr William Robert Griffiths to the position of Chief Executive Officer of the National Catholic Education Commission.



• Catholic parishes urged to “Celebrate the Living Spirit” for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sunday - 27 Jun 2008
  Catholic parishes across Australia will be invited to take up the theme “Celebrate the Living Spirit” in celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Sunday on Sunday, July 6.



• Catholic Bishops reach out to those who have been away from their faith - 13 Jun 2008
  The Catholic Church is to undertake its biggest ever outreach this weekend with a nation-wide newspaper advertising blitz in which the Bishops issue an open invitation for Catholics who may have been away from their faith to reconnect with the Church community.



• ACCER and CSSA Submission to the Productivity Commission - 5 Jun 2008
  The Australian Catholic Commission for Employment Relations and Catholic Social Services Australia provided a joint submission to the Productivity Commission hearing on Paid Maternity, Paternity and Parental Leave.



• Profile of Catholics in Australia - 5 Jun 2008
  The latest snapshot of church life in Australia shows that Mass attenders are on average older, better educated and more likely to be female, married and born overseas than Catholics in general. This is the picture from the 2006 National Church Life Survey (NCLS), based on a random sample of around 70,000 Mass attenders from 229 Catholic parishes from every Australian diocese.



• We Have a Story - Winter Edition 2008 - 3 Jun 2008
  A Work of the Bishops Commission for the Pastoral Life



• Catholic Film Office lauds Prince Caspian - 26 May 2008
  The director of the Australian Catholic Office for Film & Broadcasting has lavished praise on the soon to be released “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.”