Young Advocates, ROHAN POWER
As part of the Catholic Schools Office Virtual Academy, students from the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle are encouraged to think across disciplines to solve real world-problems in an area of interest to them.
Dangerous love
Person A meets Person B in some unexpected way, and they quickly fall in love, start planning a life together, and enjoy the happiness that comes from having found ‘the one’.
What do you remember about that day?
“We’ve got a safe house, a couple of rooms, access to a Care Team and training and a lot of love.” That was enough to prompt Scone couple, Rob and Dale to become foster carers.
The Common Good
“The coronavirus is showing us that each person’s true good is a common good, not only individual, and, vice versa, the common good is a true good for the person. If a person only seeks his or her own good, that person is egotistical. Instead, the person is kinder, nobler, when his or her own good is open to everyone, when it is shared. Health, in addition to being an individual good, is also a public good. A healthy society is one that takes care of everyone’s health, of all.”
Pope Francis
The Unfettered Soul
The Unfettered Soul, authored by former St Francis Xavier’s College, Hamilton student Serafina Angeli, is a pastiche of historical recreation combined with elements of portrait memoir.
Feeling love through tragedy
For high school sweethearts Bernice and Tony, love was like the feeling of home.
Aunty Mary's incredible gift
Lucia Minto, 12, has been announced as the winner of the 2021 Australian Catholics ‘Young Voices’ competition for her powerful digital story, The cover is not the book.