by Rene Reid | Jul 12, 2016 | Newsletters
To representatives of Church Reform Organizations: We’d like to explore ways that we might work together to bring about the reform that we are all striving to create. Even though each of our groups have differing missions focused on specific issues, there are...
by Rene Reid | Jul 5, 2016 | New Zealand
by Ann Gilroy RSJ Women Religious welcome any development in Church that responds to women’s repeated call to have an equal share in the decision-making. Pope Francis’s proposal to set up a Commission to study the possibility of having women deacons, while not yet a...
by Rene Reid | Jul 5, 2016 | Australia
how it should occur, and why this is important by Peter Wilkinson The Diocese of Melbourne was established in 1847. It became an archdiocese in 1874. To date, it has had 8 archbishops. The first three were Irish: James Goold (1848-1886), Thomas Carr (1886-1917),...
by Rene Reid | Jun 29, 2016 | Australia
Bishops for the Australian mission From 1788, when the First Fleet sailed into Botany Bay, until 31 March 2016, seventeen popes have entrusted the pastoral care of Australia’s Catholics to 214 bishops. Until 1976 the popes had also designated Australia a ‘mission’...
by Rene Reid | Jun 17, 2016 | Prayers
Mary Beth Stein shared this prayer with the team: Holy One, for the longest time we have prayed, “Your kingdom come,”and often we have wanted it to come in a supernatural way that did not ask too much of us. We have longed for your reign but imagined it...
