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Leading US Catholics to visit Australia

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Three prominent American writers and speakers will be touring several Australian States between 29 June and 12 July: Fr Mitch Pacwa SJ, Steve Ray and Alex Jones. Fr Pacwa is a well known author and EWTN presenter.

Fr Pacwa will be visiting the Freedom Publishing/St Benedict's Book Centre (35 Whitehorse Road, Balwyn) on 12 July from 10am-midday. He is to give a talk titled, "Our Lady, the Eucharist and Islam" and will sign his books. Light luncheon will be served.

The three visitors will be speaking at different venues in Brisbane, Perth, Melbourne, Canberra and Regional NSW.

For details of these talks, visit the internet website www.thecatholicforum.org, or ring (02) 9786-4836.

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 23 No 6 (July 2010), p. 2