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Creating art for social justice

The Social Justice Statement for 2021-21, To Live to the Full: Mental Health in Australia Today, provides the opportunity to better understand mental illness and how as social beings we need the bonds of family, friends and the broader community to celebrate the joys and hopes of life.

Catholic Schools

Old and new adapt to the day

Returning gifted education students regrouped Wednesday 17 March to kickstart an adaptations concept and meet their new Virtual Academy teacher, Bianca Sibert. 

Liturgy Matters

LITURGY MATTERS: Mysta what?

While society thinks Easter is over, we Christians know that it has only just begun. We have a church given mandate to celebrate (party) for 50 days, right up to Pentecost Sunday. So, what are you and your faith community doing to maintain the celebration?!

Doohan Discourse

DOOHAN DISCOURSE: 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A

Bishop Bill's homily for the 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A) as preached during the live-streamed 9.30 am Mass from Sacred Heart Cathedral, Hamilton.

Faith Matters

FAITH MATTERS: Toddlers in Church

A word to the mother following her toddler in church: Solidarity! Studies say that if you have little children, by the time you have arrived to join your colleagues in the workplace, you have already clocked almost a whole day’s work. This I can believe.

Opinion & Comment

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Resurrection

I don’t know about you, but I have been captured by the deaths and three funerals that have occurred in the past week: that of Carla Zampatti, Prince Philip and Cardinal Idris Cassidy.

Aurora

Neatly packaged care

Aberdeen’s Carole Johnston recently assembled 489 care packages that will hopefully reach Australian troops in the Far East, including the Sinai, Egypt and Syria, to coincide with Anzac Day.

Church

Project Compassion Week 2: Margaret from Solomon Islands

Margret, 39, is a teacher at a vocational school for deaf students in the Solomon Islands. She was born deaf, so she knows the challenges it poses to education and employment.

Social Services

Diversity Celebrated at Refugee Hub Launch

'Everyone Belongs' was the theme of this year's Harmony Week, and nowhere was this sentiment more evident than at the official launch of CatholicCare’s new Refugee Hub.

MN Youth

A life-changing experience

It was late at night on the day the Pastoral Placement Program application was to close that I decided to apply for the position.

Early Education

Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle continues to expand its education network

The Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle is expanding its education network, with the official launch today of St Nicholas Pathways.

Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle, CEO, Sean Scanlon, said the initiative was established to create meaningful pathways to employment and in particular, support the growing demand for early childhood educators.  

Year in Review

Partnership puts belief in leadership

In an effort to develop leadership through the prism of theology, the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle is partnering with Australian Catholic University to offer a Graduate Certificate in Mission and Culture (GCMC) in 2020.