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14 March 2004

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Waverley’s water babes

Pill move ‘mistake’: Cardinal

Pope honours asylum seeker advocate

Media ‘distorted sex abuse crisis’

Photos show kids in poverty, isolation

Catholic women’s forum

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Push for more Latin studies

Bishop Doody’s pyx restored to diocese

Bishops on Rome ad limina visit

Bridal expo preview to aid research unit

Judging a Daniel

Editorial: Shamrock shore

Letters: Judge on merits

Conversation: Stacie Orrico, faith-filled alternative to ‘sex-and-songs’ package - Teenage pop sensation is proud to say she’s a Christian

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Project Compassion: Mending Mendi

Search for deeper meaning

Lay apologetics group explains elements of faith with Christ the Teacher

St Patrick’s Day: Where the shamrock meets the wattle ...

Different times remembered

Roll call of the Irish connection

Hurley and burly on the playing field

Where the girls are

Review: Passion downside - ‘cruelty, inaccuracy, anti-semitism’

My tears didn’t stop

Review: Passion to the point of the absurd

Maronites celebrate

Rector named to succeed Bishop Belo

‘Footslogger’ gives voice to Bible ...

Ready to save a life








 

Different times remembered

A re-enactment of the 1850 arrival of Irish waifs at Sydney’s Hyde Park Barracks

Sydney is home to Australia’s single largest Irish community.

“Ireland has 32 counties; 31 in Ireland and the 32nd is Bondi,” jokes Bishop Cremin.

The latest census in 2001 recorded 50,211 Irish Republic-born and 21,734 Northern Ireland-born people in Australia

And up to one in six Australians can claim Irish heritage.

From the beginnings of European settlement here, Irish men and women have made up a large portion of the population. They were represented in the First Fleet in 1788 among the convicts, officers, guards and crew.

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