Posts Tagged: Pastoral
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Nov 26, 2012
No CommentsCall for children and their families to be released from Australia’s offshore detention camp
Media Release, 26 November, 2012 The Australian Catholic Social Justice Council has voiced its concern regarding Australia’s detention of children and their families. ACSJC Chairman Bishop Christopher Saunders said: “That asylum seekers, including children, have now been sent to Manus should set the alarm bells ringing. Having witnessed first-hand the conditions in Australia’s detention centres,...
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Nov 26, 2012
No CommentsLetter from Bishop Anthony Fisher – Australian Catholic Youth Festival
Monday, 26 November 2012 Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Australian Catholic Youth Festival : 5 – 7 December 2013, Melbourne In December 2013 the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference will host the first Australian Catholic Youth Festival. The Festival is anticipated to be the largest national gathering of Catholic young people since WYD 2008. You...
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Nov 26, 2012
No CommentsInternational Day of People with Disability – Removing barriers to create inclusive society
Media Release, November 26, 2012 The International Day of People with Disability is celebrated on 3 December each year, with this year’s theme of, “Removing barriers to create an inclusive and accessible society for all.” Bishop Terence Brady, the Australian Bishops’ Delegate for Disability Issues, said that there is much evidence of the types of...
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Jan 24, 2012
No CommentsA Word for Today – Archbishop Hickey launches new weekly YouTube series
By Bridget Anna-Maria Spinks Children’s welfare, family interests and the rampant drug culture in Perth will be a few of the topics discussed by Perth Catholic Archbishop Barry Hickey in a new video series he launched on 20 January online. In an attempt to speak to the broader public, the weekly video series “A Word...
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Dec 23, 2011
No CommentsCatholic Migrant office calls for reflection on asylum policy during the Christmas season.
Media Release, 23 December 2011 The Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office today urged both political parties to show moral leadership over the Christmas period with regard to policy debates on asylum seekers and refugees. Director of the ACMRO Fr Maurizio Pettenà CS expressed the view that people seeking asylum need to be processed in...
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Dec 22, 2011
3 CommentsTrust in God, and take one day at a time – A reflection on the life of Bishop Joe
By Fr Maurizio Pettena CS Bishop Joe is still very much a holy presence in my life. I remember very vividly last year on the 23rd of December when he called me at about 10pm at night and asked me what I was doing. He said he wasn’t feeling too well. He kept feeling worse,...
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Dec 19, 2011
No CommentsThe Christmas story of asylum seekers
By Fr Maurizio Pettena CS Yesterday, I stood in front of the Nativity scene that is displayed in front of St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney and considered it for a moment. The Christmas story, as always during December, is much on my mind and in my prayer this week. Even David Jones just down the...
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Dec 19, 2011
No Comments“Increase humanitarian intake to prevent future asylum tragedies” says Catholic Migrant office
Media Release 19 December, 2011 The Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office (ACMRO) today expressed sorrow over the tragedy which has resulted in the deaths of a possible 160 people, mostly thought to be asylum seekers from Afghanistan and Iran. This time last year, a similar tragedy occurred when just short of safety, a boat...
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Dec 12, 2011
No CommentsBishops’ Commission for Church Ministry founds new Pastoral Council for Lay Catholics
Media Release 8 December, 2011 The Bishops Commission for Church Ministry (BCCM) has founded a new Lay Pastoral Council to develop policies for the education, formation, pastoral care and support of Lay Pastoral Ministers. The members of the newly-formed Council are: Sr Philomena Burrell (Perth); Mrs Heather Carey (Adelaide); Sr Kathy Hatherall (Brisbane); Mr Richard...
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Nov 20, 2011
No CommentsWhat is this “Year of Grace”?
By Fr Peter Brock You’ll have seen Archbishop Wilson’s Letter, on behalf of the Australian Bishops, announcing the Year of Grace [www.yearofgrace.catholic.com.au] The Bishops have chosen, as a sort of sub-heading, a phrase from Pope John Paul II’s Novo Millennio Ineunte: “starting afresh from Christ”. So that might be the four-word answer to the question....