Who knew when Pope Francis made this statement in 2015, how parents and carers would be required to become so much more engaged in the education of their children and young people in 2020, as a result of COVID-19. Catholic schools have for many years seen parents as integral partners in their children’s education and never more so than this year.

The University of Notre Dame Australia has once again taken the national top spot for undergraduate graduate satisfaction according to the latest Federal Government’s nationwide Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) 2020 Graduate Outcomes Survey.

In place of Rodgers’ mother-and-daughter duo, Freaky features a vicious serial killer known as The Butcher (Vince Vaughn) and misfit high school student Millie Kessler (Kathryn Newton).

Being faithful to God means taking the risk of setting aside one’s own needs and plans in order to serve others, Pope Francis said, celebrating Mass for the World Day of the Poor.

Father Frank O’Dea SSS looks at how the Eucharist developed and what it might mean for Catholics today. This is the second piece following on from last week’s feature. This article is based on a chapter from a book by Fr O’Dea titled Eucharist the Basic Spirituality.

The disciples were devastated at the death of Jesus but were greatly comforted and encouraged by His appearances after His resurrection when he ate and drank with them.

The mid-19th century efforts to educate two aboriginal boys in Italy, who could become missionaries to their own people, started with the best intentions but finished badly.

This is the second part of the article on the 1937 fourth Plenary Council of Australia and New Zealand, the seventh in the series on the councils of the Catholic Church in Australia held between 1844 and 1937. It examines the preparation, proceedings and decrees of the Council, the decisions which followed it, and the efforts to evangelise Australia’s Aboriginal peoples.

This is the third part of the seventh in the series of articles looking at the particular councils of the Catholic Church in Australia held between 1844 and 1937 by Peter J Wilkinson. It examines the background and factors leading to the Fourth Plenary Council of Australia & New Zealand held in Sydney from 4 to 12 September 1937, which brought all the particular churches of both nations for the second time.

An important item on the 1905 Plenary Council agenda was the evangelisation of Australia’s Aboriginal peoples. The 1844 first Provincial Council made no mention of this ministry, but the 1869 second Provincial Council decreed that their “conversion” be confided to some male religious congregation, denounced the injustices committed against them, and recommended a special vicariate apostolic for north Queensland. The 1885 first Australasian Plenary produced six policy decrees (nn. 203-208) for ‘propagating the faith among the aborigines’ whom it considered ‘capable of and willing to embrace Christianity’, but the predominantly Irish bishops who had formulated the decrees generally ignored them. The 1895 second Australian Plenary Council merely endorsed the 1885 decrees.