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NATIONAL: Prison Sunday to focus on youth justice

Pope Francis gives his blessing to a young man during Prison Sunday celebrations. Photo: ACBC Inspired by the Catholic Church’s Year of Youth in Australia, the focus of Prison Sunday on November 11 will be youth justice and juvenile detention. Prison Sunday commenced in 2016, during the Year of Mercy, as an initiative of Pope Francis to observe the Jubilee for Prisoners. “We need to no...
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NATIONAL: Strong lay formation the answer for an outward-looking Church

A job well done for Peter Gates and Andrea Dean at the symposium in Rome. Photo: Supplied. The training and formation of lay missionaries of the Church at all levels was high on the list of priorities for a recent international symposium in Rome. Australian representatives attended the symposium on behalf of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. The symposium, themed “Promotion a...
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NATIONAL: Young people’s missionary hearts are Pope’s focus for World Mission Day

Pope Francis has emphasised the importance of young people in the life and mission of the Church in his message for the 92nd World Mission Day. Photo: Supplied. As World Mission Sunday was celebrated in parishes and communities around the world on 21 October, Catholic Mission is calling on Australians to cast their hearts and minds to the missionary work of the Church in places of need. T...
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Nagle College students get immersed in Aboriginal culture

Nagle Catholic College students with the local students after a game of football. Photo: Supplied. By Theresia Titus Seventeen students, along with two teachers from Nagle Catholic College (NCC) spent almost a week with Parnngurr Aboriginal Community (Cotton Creek) in Newman, Western Australia. Nagle Catholic College Aboriginal Liaison Officer Micelle Shiosaki told The eRecord the imme...
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‘We are sorry, we believe you’ – PM delivers historic National Apology

Labor Party Leader Bill Shorten, National Apology Reference Group Chair Cheryl Lynn Edwardes AM, and Liberal Party Leader Scott Morrison display unification on a sombre morning of sorrows. Photo: Sourced. By Matthew Lau Leaders of the Catholic Church are in full support of the Australian Prime Minister in light of this week’s heartfelt national apology to thousands of victims of instituti...
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NATIONAL: Listening to the Spirit: 10,000 voices and climbing

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe blesses the Plenary Council candles at the official Perth launch in May 2018. Photo: Ron Tan. Courtesy Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Momentum is building as the Church reaches the midway point of the Open Listening and Dialogue phase of preparations for the Plenary Council in 2020. Facilitator Lana Turvey-Collins says hearing the voices of more tha...
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NATIONAL: Permanent Deacons welcome new national coordinator

Permanent Deacons of the Perth Archdiocese at a seminar on 28 June 2018. Photo: Supplied. By Matt Lau and ACBC The Australian Bishops have appointed a new national coordinator for the fastest-growing vocation in the Church in Australia. Adelaide’s Deacon Tim Grauel was recently appointed as national coordinator of the permanent diaconate for the Bishops Office for Clergy Life and Minis...
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Mary Glowrey sainthood cause gains steady momentum

Dr Mary Glowrey was medical graduate of the University of Melbourne, at a time when there were few female medical students. Photo: Mary Glowrey Museum The campaign for Sister Mary Glowrey to become Australia’s second saint, after the canonisation of Sr Mary MacKillop in 2010, is now “in God’s hands”. Dr Mary Glowrey was the founding president of the Catholic Women’s Social Guild in 1...
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NATIONAL: Bishop Charles Gauci ordained fifth Bishop of Darwin

Bishop Charles Gauci has been a priest in the Archdiocese of Adelaide since 1977, and most recently held the role of Administrator of St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral. Photo: Matthew Lau. Courtesy Australian Catholic Bishops Conference In a ceremony rich with Catholic tradition and Aboriginal culture, the Diocese of Darwin last Wednesday night welcomed Bishop Charles Gauci as its new shepher...
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NATIONAL: Caritas responds to Indonesian island natural disasters

An Indonesian soldier carries an elderly woman during an evacuation on 1 October after an earthquake and tsunami on Sulawesi Island. Photo: Antara Foto/Reuters. The Caritas international network is responding with emergency assistance in the aftermath of a powerful earthquake that rocked central Sulawesi, Indonesia on Friday 28 September. More than 1400 people are confirmed dead and thous...
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