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ACBC Reflection for Laudato Si’ Week – Day Nine
Laudato Si’ Week, a celebration of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ and a call to action for Catholics around the world, is being celebrated 16-24 May, 2022. Throughout Laudato Si’ Week, you and...
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Music and talent join forces to repair a damaged Creation
From Saint Francis’ Canticle of the Creatures to the modern tunes of singers and musicians, encouraging all to safeguard our Common Home, a response to the urgent cries of the poor, and an embrace of...
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Archbishop Gallagher: Ukraine has right to defend itself but beware arms race
Ahead of his visit to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States, grants an interview to the Italian TV station TG2, and says...
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Pope: Tackle poverty to protect children from child labour
Pope Francis addresses the 5th Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour taking place in South Africa and underlines that ensuring the present and future of children is ensuring the present and...
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Stella Maris Australia welcomes chance to discuss ministry with bishops
Bishops with ports in their dioceses have gathered with Stella Maris Australia leaders to consider how the Church can minister effectively to seafarers – a workforce that continues to suffer the...
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A reflection for National Sorry Day and National Reconciliation Week
26 May is National Sorry Day 27 May to 3 June is National Reconciliation Week Sorry Day and Reconciliation Week are two aspects of the same...
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Pope calls for fraternity ‘among ourselves and with creation’
Pope Francis receives participants in an International Conference entitled “Nature in Mind: A new culture of nature for the defence of biodiversity,” inviting them to find “new, more integrated,...
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Australian bishops send prayers, hopes to Ukrainian Catholics
Australia’s Catholic bishops have again expressed their prayer for and solidarity with the Ukrainian people, in a letter to Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic...
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US Archbishop: Gun control a question of life, along with abortion
US Archbishop Michael Jackels of Dubuque sends a message to the faithful recalling the importance of the healing role of the Eucharist, especially as the nation struggles to come to terms with the...
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The time to make change for our First Nations people is now
On the eve of Good Friday, I traversed, albeit very naively, across Sydney from the East to the West ready to experience the Good Friday Night Pilgrimage within the Diocese of Parramatta. I sat in a...
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Good Samaritan Sister Clare Condon receives ACU honour
Good Samaritan Sister Clare Condon has been awarded an honourary doctorate by Australian Catholic University in recognition of her contribution to social justice and to the Catholic Church in...
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Yarn Up inspires meaningful dialogue
Members from the Catholic community recently gathered at CathWest Innovation College in Mount Druitt for a Yarn Up in the lead up to Reconciliation Week. A chance to chat, share ideas and feedback,...
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Catholic 101: Nuclear Arms
A few days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Vladimir Putin put his country’s nuclear forces on “special alert”. Since then, a flurry of news articles has followed, all raising that pressing and...
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Jesuit Mission – welcoming the people fleeing Ukraine
On Thursday 19 May, Jesuit Mission held a Ukraine Emergency Response Webinar about the swift international effort of the Jesuit network in supporting thousands of vulnerable refugees fleeing the...
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Diocese of Parramatta celebrates commitment to Reconciliation
Diocese of Parramatta representatives gathered last week for a beautiful Reconciliation Week event at the Bethany Centre in Parramatta. Surrounded by Australian wildflower arrangements, Bishop...
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War’s deadly distractions
War is deadly. While this is an obvious fact regarding those who fight, it is less obvious regarding the life and death plight of many non-combatants trapped within battle zones. And even less...
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Fr Frank Brennan delivers Marist 2022 Marian Lecture
On the evening of Tuesday 10 May, over 600 people gathered together online and in small groups for the Marist Association of Saint Marcellin Champagnat’s annual Marian Lecture titled Human Dignity –...
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Minimum wage increase would have economic, social benefits
A significant increase in the national minimum wage will deliver economic and social benefits, a key adviser to the Catholic Church’s submission to the Fair Work Commission has told the Media Blog...
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Greg Boyle’s radical theology invites us to tenderness
Amid the continued barrage of images from the Ruso-Ukrainian conflict, you may have encountered harrowing footage of tattooed Salvadoran prisoners stripped down to their underwear and stacked against...
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Where Peter Is Interview with Cardinal Blase Cupich on gun violence
In the new episode of Field Hospital on 8 June, Jeannie Gaffigan and I are joined by Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago to talk about how Catholics should respond to the plague of gun violence in our...
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