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THE PARISH. THE NATION. THE WORLD. Western Australia's award-winning Catholic newspaper since 1874 - Wednesday July 8 2009
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Archbishop Barry Hickey shows Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith over the site of St Mary's Cathedral last week. The Minister, also the federal member for Perth, was representing the PHOTO. ROBERT HIINI Commonwealth, which has contributed $4 million to the $32.9 million project. ALSO: Progress report on St Mary's, Photos - Pages 6&7.
Out with a bang: Vatican closes Pauline year with a few surprises But Pope puts discovery secondary to the importance of standing up for the Faith. VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope Benedict XVI relegated the identification of the sarcophagus containing the remains of St Paul as
secondary to the importance of standing up for the faith. During a vespers service at Rome's Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls on June 28, the Pope announced that the presumed tomb of St Paul contains bone fragments from a human who lived between the first and second century. On the same day, the
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Vatican also revealed the oldest known portrait of the saint. "This seems to confirm the unanimous and uncontested tradition that they are the mortal remains of the apostle Paul," the Pope said. However, the Pontiff also questioned the position of those Catholic politicians who, like former Prime Minister Romano
Prodi of Italy, pick and choose what Church teachings to accept. Italian journal Corrispondenza Romana reported that the Pope disputed a statement that to oppose the Church was a courageous act - the act of an adult. On the contrary, to oppose the Church does not require courage, he said, because to do so is to obtain plau-
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What does it take to prepare a child for reception of the Sacraments? The CFFL has been out and about speaking to those working at the coalface about the challenges and rewarding nature of this essential work.
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dits from the secular public. In fact one needs courage to adhere to the teachings even if these contradict the thinking of the modern world. It is this non-conforming which St Paul calls an "adult faith". The Pope concluded that an adult faith calls for defending life from the first moment, opposing Continued on Page 10
HISTORIC FURNITURE The pews of St Mary's Cathedral are being lovingly restored for those who want a unique link with the history of the Church in WA but numbers are limited.
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