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Category Archives: Youth Ministry
Tim Norton installed as third Bishop of Broome
Australia’s Catholic bishops have welcomed the installation of the Most Reverend Tim Norton SVD as the third Bishop of Broome.
Church to mark International Day of People with Disability
The Catholic Church in Australia is committed to upholding and protecting the dignity and wellbeing of all people with disabilities.
Registrations open for Australian Catholic Youth Festival
Online registrations have officially opened for the 2019 Australian Catholic Youth Festival, to be held in Perth from December 8 to 10.
A number of key festival speakers and performers have already been announced, including ACYF favourite, priest-musician Fr Rob Galea, international Catholic speaker and author Katie Prejean McGrady and American Catholic rapper Joe Melendrez. Continue reading
Perth prepares for youth influx this December
The fourth Australian Catholic Youth Festival will invite delegates to follow Mary’s example of saying “Yes” when it opens on the great Marian Feast of the Immaculate Conception.
ACYF2019 will adopt the scriptural theme of the Plenary Council 2020: “Listen to what the Spirit is saying.”
Young Australians get set for World Youth Day Panama
More than 1000 young people from across Australia will be jetting off to Panama this week to attend World Youth Day, which begins on January 22.
Malcolm Hart, director of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference’s Office for Youth, is helping coordinate the bishops’ pilgrimage of approximately 700 people across 12 groups from throughout Australia. Continue reading
Bishops, young people celebrate fruits of Year of Youth
Adeline Bock tells bishops how the Year of Youth can be a catalyst for change for the Church in Australia
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference welcomed a group of young Catholics from across the country to Sydney last week as the Church in Australia marked the end of the Year of Youth.
Opened at the Australian Catholic Youth Festival last December, the Year of Youth concluded on Saturday, the final day of the Church’s liturgical year. Continue reading
Australian youth auditor announced for Vatican Synod
Twenty-two-year-old Sydneysider Sebastian Duhau will soon be winging his way to the Vatican as Australia’s youth auditor at the upcoming General Synod of Bishops on Young People, Faith and Vocational Discernment.
Mr Duhau, from the Diocese of Parramatta, was nominated and accepted to participate in the General Synod itself, along with young people and lay Catholics from more than 40 countries, according to an official list of participants released by the Vatican on Saturday. Continue reading
2019 Catholic Youth Festival to tune into what Spirit is saying
More than 5000 young Catholics are expected to converge on Perth next year for the Australian Catholic Youth Festival (ACYF).
As the largest Catholic gathering in Australia, the ACYF promotes and engages the life and voice of young Catholics, equipping them to live out their faith in the world. Continue reading
Youth ministry gathering marks 10 years since WYD in Sydney Office for Youth
Bishop Mark Edwards
Ten years since the first national gathering of youth ministers soon after World Youth Day in Sydney, delegates will meet in Parramatta in September to identify areas for future growth and to contribute to Plenary Council 2020 discussions.
More than 300 delegates who work with young people in parishes, schools, communities, universities and vocations are expected to attend the Australian Catholic Youth Ministry Convention (ACYMC). Continue reading