One of Adelaide’s newest Catholic schools celebrates its fifth anniversary next month and while reaching the milestone will provide an opportunity to reflect on achievements, the clear focus continues to be providing its students with a ‘safe, supportive and joyous’ learning environment.
They have been described by Pope Francis as a ‘gift’ and a ‘treasure’ and there is no doubt that Catholic grandparents are playing a significant role when it comes to the faith formation of the young in the Church.
The Catholic Church has become the first non-government institution to commit to a national redress scheme for survivors of child sexual abuse. This follows the announcement this week that South Australia will join the scheme.
Adelaide has been selected as the venue for the first of two historic national gatherings to consider the future of the Catholic Church in Australia.
Nine parishes of the western deanery have combined to sponsor a two week pilgrimage to the Holy Land in October, accompanied by Fr Maurice Shinnick who recently retired as parish priest of Croydon Park.
When Bernie Victory walks out of the Centacare building on his last day of work this month he will close the door on a career spanning 35 years in family welfare services. He told LINDY MCNAMARA his proudest achievement has been raising nearly $1 million to support the work of the organisation.
These are not the words I would like to be writing this month; they will have to wait for another time. Needless to say, these are difficult days, but there is much to be positive about in our Archdiocese.
If we look at the world with attention, we see quickly that it is beautiful, that it glows with the beauty of the God who created it; if we look attentively at each other we discover the same thing, that is, the first and deepest truth about creation.
As one who serves are the words Archbishop Leonard Faulkner chose for his bishop’s motto after a “great discussion” with his family.