Humans have known the therapeutic value of reconnecting with nature and the earth for thousands and thousands of years, writes Perth Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton, as he reflects on the celebrations of National Aboriginal and Islanders Day held on Sunday 1 August 2021.

For The University of Notre Dame Australia Communications and Behavioural Science alumna Sam Cook, her belief that we can make a difference drove her on with relentless passion.

A key component of the Plenary Council’s assemblies will help members to consider the 16 questions that make up the Council agenda.
Each day, some of those questions will be the focus of small group discernment, with about 10 members engaging in what is known as “spiritual conversations”. What are spiritual conversations? And how do they work?
Br Ian Cribb SJ, who led a retreat for the Australian Bishops in 2019, answers some questions about how the spiritual conversations process will benefit the Plenary Council Members as they discern the questions before them.

At the Opening Mass of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia, Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe emphasised that the Lord is inviting us to reflect deeply and courageously on how we can better, as individuals and as communities of faith, be this living image of the life-giving God who, in Christ, is always seeking to be present and active in our world.

As Agent 007 experiences romantic complications in his relationship with his latest girlfriend (Lea Seydoux), he also must contend with the schemes of two villains (Rami Malek and Christoph Waltz), a rift between the British and American intelligence authorities, a dark secret being harbored by his boss (Ralph Fiennes) and competition from a younger operative (Lashana Lynch).

The Young Justice Leaders Forum held between July and September 2021, was a collaborative effort organised by Aquinas College, Corpus Christi College, Santa Maria College and Iona Presentation College. Part two of the forum, held at Corpus Christi College on Tuesday, 28 September, provided the opportunity for delegates to regather to share learnings gained from efforts made between the two days to implement a justice/advocacy project.

Since the Congregation of the Sisters of St John of God formed in Wexford, Ireland in 1971, the Sisters have readily and courageously put themselves in dangerous and unknown circumstances to care for the sick and injured, writes SJOG Health Care Group Director Mission Integration, Marcelle Mogg.

The months between the first and second general assemblies of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia are a time for “prayer, reflection, maturation and development”, according to a concluding statement from the first assembly.

Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has reflected on a week that had been “inspiring, challenging and sometimes unsettling” following closure of the formal proceedings of the First General Assembly of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia on Saturday 9 October.

Australian Catholic Bishops Conference President and Brisbane Archbishop Coleridge drew on the Gospel for Sunday’s First Assembly Closing Mass to see how the protagonist had similarities with the Council’s members.