Enriched by her personal journey, Coby said her hope for St Mary’s is for every child to receive a quality Catholic education which meets the needs of every student and family.
The new Student Exchange Agreement commits each university to accepting exchange students for either an academic year or an academic semester, enhancing the educational experience and enriching the cultural understandings of students.
This year, among the diverse groups and individuals participating, a team from Catholic Youth Ministry in conjunction with Caritas Australia saw 16 enthusiastic entrants who ran and walked their way to the finish line.
“As we journey together, we must continue to heal from the past while also looking toward the future. We need to find effective ways to ensure the common good is shared by all people of this nation, especially our First Nations People,” said Chair of the Bishops Commission for Relations with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Bishop Charles Gauci, as Australians marked National Reconciliation Week.
A new suite of resources for parents provides useful and at times challenging comment from specialists including Andrew Fuller, Prof John Hattie, Prof Donna Cross & Dr John Edwards – as well as other valuable research findings from around the world.
Parish Pastoral Care Program Coordinators and Volunteers were recently celebrated by Catholic Outreach in conjunction with National Volunteers Week.
St John of God Health Care Group Chief Executive Officer Bryan Pyne said he was proud to launch the plan during National Reconciliation Week, with a number of activities underway across the organisation’s hospitals and services to recognise the week.
The Chosen is a groundbreaking historical drama based on the life of Jesus, seen through the eyes of those who knew him.
In May 2021, when the most recent survey was conducted, just over 53,000 people attended Mass celebrated in a language other than English each weekend, which represented 13.6 per cent of all Mass attenders – a rise of 3.3 per cent since the last count in 2016.
“As graduates from a Catholic university, you are graduating from an institution which draws its inspiration and the very meaning of its existence from the life and teachings of the one who said, “I have come to bring life to all and bring life in all its fulness” (Jn 10:10),” Archbishop Costelloe emphasised.