Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has last weekend told youth from the United Kingdom that the Church needs their energy, their enthusiasm, their restlessness and their idealism. Photo: Martin Mazur/Catholic Bishops Conference England and Wales.
The Holy Father explained that witnessing the “light of holiness” radiated by Christ is not a “magical moment” outside of time but is what gives the disciples “the strength to follow him to Jerusalem, to the cross.”
Lent is the time, Pope Francis has said, “to proclaim that God alone is Lord, to drop the pretence of being self-sufficient and the need to put ourselves at the centre of things, to be the top of the class, to think that by our own abilities we can succeed in life and transform the world around us.”
Catholic school students from across Australia have contributed to a video they hope will influence other young people to act and help eradicate forced labour from the production of chocolate, clothing and technology.
Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych, spoke with a small group of reporters in Rome by Zoom on 20 February from Kyiv, a city he has left only a couple of times and only for a few days in the past year.
In launching a new program of Liturgical Formation and Renewal this week, Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB says it is important the Perth Catholic community reflect on what it means to be a Christ-centred Church that is prayerful and Eucharistic.
Over the next four weeks, video messages highlighting an understanding of Sacramentality, Why we Gather to celebrate Liturgy, Signs and Symbols in the Liturgy and What is Liturgy, will be shown in our parish communities.
Facing the distressing situation in Syria and Turkey, Catholic Mission is taking action to support missionaries who are providing vital emergency support and pastoral care in this time of suffering.
Speaking during the quadrennial assembly of the Federation of Catholic Bishops Conferences of Oceania in Fiji last week, the bishops expressed deep sadness at the loss of life and the damage from which it will take years to recover.
Exhorting South Sudanese Christians to be the “salt of the earth” and the “light of the world,” as the day’s Gospel reading called them to be, Pope Francis told the people, “This country, so beautiful yet ravaged by violence, needs the light that each one of you has, or better, the light that each one of you is.”