The term ‘squatter’ derives from its English usage as a term of contempt for a person who had taken up residence at a place without having legal claim. The use of ‘squatter’ in the early years of ...
Birth control and HIV/AIDSIn 2005, the Pope listed several ways to combat the spread of HIV, including chastity, fidelity in marriage and anti-poverty efforts; he also rejected the use of condoms. The ...
While visiting Brazil in May 2007, "the pope sparked controversy by saying that native populations had been 'silently longing' for the Christian faith brought to South America by colonizers." The Pope ...
Main article: Early life of Pope Benedict XVIThe house where Ratzinger was born, in Marktl, Bavaria, Germany. The building still stands today.Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger was born on 16 April, Holy Satur ...
The first people honored as saints were the martyrs. Pious legends of their deaths were considered to affirm the truth of their faith in Christ.The Roman Rite's Canon of the Mass contains the names on ...
Physiographically, Australasia includes New Zealand, it is the continent (along with the Australian island-state of Tasmania), and Melanesia: New Guinea and neighbouring islands north and east of Aust ...
Woods was born in London, the sixth son (of eleven children) of James Tenison Woods, Q.C., a sub-editor of The Times, and his wife, Henrietta Maria Saint-Eloy, née Tenison, daughter of the Rev. Josep ...
Mary Helen MacKillop was born on 15 January 1842 in what is now the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria (at the time part of an area called Newtown in the then British colony of New South Wales) to ...
Fr Woods had been very concerned about the lack of education, particularly Catholic education, in South Australia. In 1866, he invited MacKillop and her sisters Annie and Lexie to come to Penola and o ...
The Congregation of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan is a Roman Catholic congregation of religious women commenced by Bede Polding, OSB, Australia’s first Catholic bishop, in Sydney in 1857. The con ...
Bede Polding, OSB, (18 October 1794 – 16 March 1877) was the first Roman Catholic Bishop and then Archbishop of Sydney, Australia.Experiences in Sydney Polding and party arrived first in Hobart on 6 ...
It was originally established in 1857 by five Irish Sisters of Charity, who had migrated to Sydney in 1838 with a mission to help the poor and disadvantaged. Some of their early work included helping ...
Mother Mary Aikenhead, who had founded the Religious Sisters of Charity in 1815 in Dublin, Ireland, then part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, was requested by John Bede Polding, O. ...
Camden Park is an outer suburb of Sydney, Australia. It was named after John Macarthur's estate "Camden Park". While most of the suburb is farmland in Wollondilly Shire, the northern part of Camden Pa ...
The department is led by its Director-General, currently Dr Richard Sheldrake, who reports to the Minister for Primary Industries, presently the Honourable Katrina Hodgkinson MP.The department sits wi ...
