Aged care provider Southern Cross Care won the category for Community Organisation Not for Profit for their work in providing care to the 51 residents, and in judges comments for “treating their residents like family.”

There’s still time to apply to study at Notre Dame in Semester 1, 2021, and a recent Federal Government funding decision is set to give Notre Dame’s domestic students support towards the cost of their undergraduate degree. Photo: Supplied. In our rapidly changing world, ethics in leadership is more important than ever across all sectors – so choose a university that teaches you to think and...

Archdiocesan agency Identitywa recognised staff’s achievements and hard work amid a challenging year, in their annual Employee Recognition Awards for 2020. Board Chair Graeme Mander and Chief Executive Officer Marina Re extended their gratitude “for the commitment and dedication of the nominees”.

Sydney’s Auxiliary Bishop Terence Brady recognised the great courage and unfailing service to others, endured by Eileen O’Connor despite living with great personal suffering herself, at a special mass held on 10 January 2021, to mark the centenary of her death, as she remains on the path to becoming Australia’s second saint.

A middle school music teacher who yearns to be a jazz pianist gets his big break when he’s invited to join a highly regarded quartet. But just before his first performance with them, an accident leaves his body in a coma and sends his spirit into the afterlife. His efforts to avoid going to heaven and return to his earthly existence bring him instead to the realm where the personalities of future babies are formed. There, he’s assigned to mentor a soul who has stubbornly refused to be born for centuries. By John Mulderig

Pope Francis delivered his Christmas message and blessing “urbi et orbi” (to the city and the world) from the Hall of Blessings at the Vatican on 25 December 2020, highlighting his hope that Christmas would be an opportunity for all to rediscover the family as a cradle of life and faith, a place of acceptance and love, dialogue, forgiveness, fraternal solidarity and shared joy, a source of peace for all humanity.

In their ongoing work and in their response to the COVID-19 crisis, our Archdiocesan Social Outreach agencies remind us powerfully that simply believing that Jesus existed is not faith – doing something in response to that belief is faith.

Catholic Homes is well placed to respond to the profound changes experienced by the aged care sector in recent times through its singular approach in how the organisation cares for its people: ‘Care with Purpose’.

The arrival of the Sisters of St John of God arrived in Perth after a long journey from Wexford, Ireland on 25 November 1895 was significant, as they would go on to provide healing and hope to the newly established colony and forever change the healthcare landscape in Australia.

The Church in Australia will celebrate the Sunday of the Word of God on the first Sunday in February each year, starting with 7 February 2021.