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Friday, 04 September 2015 08:50
EMPHATIC NO TO AUSTRALIA’S INVOLVEMENT TO BOMBING IN SYRIA
EMPHATIC NO TO AUSTRALIA’S INVOLVEMENT TO BOMBING IN SYRIA International Christian Peace Movement National President: Father Claude Mostowik MSC 61+2+9550 3845 0411 450 953 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. September 1, 2015 MEDIA RELEASE: Pax Christi Australia is a branch of the International Peace movement, Pax Christi International. At…
Friday, 21 August 2015 15:53
NO TO MINING, YES TO LIFE..
‘No to mining, Yes to life’……..Palayasin ‘Go away’ As mining companies engage in human rights abuses, land grabs, environmental destruction, community upheaval, loss of traditional life, militarisation, pollution of vital ecosystems, and vilification and killing of human rights defenders and activists, in the Philippines the Tagalog word ‘palayasin’ (go away)…
Monday, 17 August 2015 10:48
MENTION MY NAME REMEMBRANCE SERVICE
MENTION MY NAME, REMEMBRANCE SERVICE Catholic Cemeteries & Crematoria in partnership with the Southern Metropolitan Cemetery Trust have partnered and identified our vision to provide support to those who have lost a loved one through suicide. We are undertaking a number of initiatives to support the families, friends and communities…
Monday, 03 August 2015 12:50
A MANIFESTO FOR A NEW EARTH AND NEW HUMANITY
A manifesto for a new earth and new humanity An article from the Centre's magazine Just Comment by Claude Mostowik MSC Laudato Si’ – On Care of Our Common Home Pope Francis’s new encyclical, Laudato Si’, subtitled ‘On Care for Our Common Home’ underscores its main message: that we…
Monday, 27 July 2015 22:43
US GUN CULTURE - CONSEQUENCES
US GUN CULTURE - CONSEQUENCES And Australia at the bottom of this graph.
Wednesday, 15 July 2015 22:45
THE PARADOXICAL COMMANDMENTS
The Paradoxical Commandments Dr. Kent M. Keith People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you…
Tuesday, 07 July 2015 23:07
ABORIGINES IN REMOTE AREAS: BISHOP CHRISTOPHER SAUNDERS
Bishop Christopher Saunders on aborigines in remote areas Outdated attitudes to Aboriginal "lifestyle choices" are an indictment on the government's understanding of the issues facing our First people. 'There is no evidence to suggest that leaving traditional homelands for life in towns will benefit the people presently living in…
Tuesday, 30 June 2015 15:51
POPE FRANCIS AND NAOMI KLEIN, CLIMATE CHANGE
POPE FRANCIS AND NAOMI KLEIN, CLIMATE CHANGE Pope Francis recruits Naomi Klein in climate change battle Social activist ‘surprised but delighted’ to join top cardinal in high-level environment conference at the Vatican [Rosie Scammell The Guardian June 28, 2015] She is one of the world’s most high-profile social activists and…
Tuesday, 23 June 2015 15:35
JUSTICE AND PRAYER: FROM LAUDATO SI
JUSTICE AND PRAYER FROM LAUDATO SI A prayer for our earth Pope Francis All-powerful God, you are present in the whole universe and in the smallest of your creatures. You embrace with your tenderness all that exists. Pour out upon us the power of your love, hat we may protect…
Wednesday, 17 June 2015 16:48
LOVE MAKES A WAY AT PARLIAMENT HOUSE
LOVE MAKES A WAY AT PARLIAMENT HOUSE Love Makes A Way #BREAKING: Mass Sit-In with Catholic Bishop, Nuns, Pastors in Parliament House Diverse group of Christian Leaders risking arrest to call for “a change of heart” on asylum seekers and release of all children on the 10th Anniversary of John…
Tuesday, 09 June 2015 16:03
INDICTMENT OF CAPITALISM: THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES, WITH RUSSELL BRAND
AN INDICTMENT OF CAPITALISM: THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES, WITH RUSSELL BRAND THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES UK, 2015, 101 minutes, Colour. Russell Brand. Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Everyone knows the story of the Emperor’s new clothes, a tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Just in case there are some in the audience…
Saturday, 06 June 2015 09:19
WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY, JUNE 5th
WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY, JUNE 5TH ‘Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.’ Mahatma Gandhi ‘The environment is everything that isn't me.’ Albert Einstein ‘The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness.’ Khalil Gibran ‘God…
Monday, 25 May 2015 10:21
NOPE NOPE NOPE, YES YES YES
NOPE NOPE NOPE, YES, YES, YES Letters to the Sydney Morning Herald The excuse that the ‘boat-stoppers’ have always trotted out when accused of the policy's inhumanity, that ‘it saves people from drowning’, has now been exposed as hollow. People are still drowning in our region. Others are dying on…
Thursday, 21 May 2015 11:04
LOVE MAKES A WAY: MEDIA RELEASE
LOVE MAKES A WAY: MEDIA RELEASE BREAKING NEWS: A group of Christians are currently engaged in a prayerful sit-in in the Edgecliff office of Communication Minister Malcolm Turnbull. The group is part of the ‘Love Makes a Way’ movement calling for all children to be released from immigration detention, and…
Monday, 18 May 2015 12:41
RICKETY BOATS ON THE OCEAN
RICKETY BOATS ON THE OCEAN Thousands of desperate, persecuted people on rickety ships on the open ocean, turned away again and again by nation after nation. Three points. 1. Have we learned nothing? These are not Jews fleeing Nazi Germany yet turned away by 'civilised' first world nations…
Saturday, 25 April 2015 18:04
MONEY FOR HUNGER, MONEY FOR WEAPONS
MONEY FOR HUNGER, MONEY FOR WEAPONS
Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:00
FOR SYDNEY AND NSW VISITORS
FOR SYDNEY AND NSW VISITORS Holy Saturday Vigil Saturday 4 April, 12 noon Gathering together in prayer for asylum seekers This year we will gather in Manly, in the mall outside the office of Prime Minister Tony Abbott (17 Sydney Rd. Manly). Last year's Holy Saturday Vigil was a powerful…
Tuesday, 17 March 2015 16:02
CYCLONE PAM AND THE PACIFIC
CYCLONE PAM AND THE PACIFIC Kiribati president: 'time to act' on climate change Anote Tong, president of Kiribati, is at the UN disaster risk conference in Sendai, Japan, and has been speaking about the effects of Cyclone Pam on his country. 'Cyclone Pam struck the Pacific ... with Vanuatu bearing…
Saturday, 14 March 2015 09:38
REMOTE COMMUNITIES AND LIFESTLE
REMOTE COMMUNTIES AND LIFESTYLE What choice for Aboriginal peoples, asks Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Dire circumstances ‘What choice?’ is the question the Bishops Commission for Relations with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders has asked Prime Minister Tony Abbott after his comment that Aboriginal peoples are living in remote communities as…
Thursday, 26 February 2015 03:04
TRIBUTE TO FAITH BANDLER: PATRICK DODSON
TRIBUTE TO FAITH BANDLER: PATRICK DODSON Faith Bandler, AC also known as Ida Lessing Faith Mussing, was an Australian civil rights activist of South Sea Islander heritage. She was a campaigner for the rights of Indigenous Australians and South Sea Islanders. Born: September 27, 1918, New South Wales Died: February…
Monday, 16 February 2015 10:10
CHILD DETENTION
Aust Church groups condemn govt over child detention Catholic social justice groups have condemned the Australian government over the report released by the Australian Human Rights Commission into the mandatory detention of refugee children. The Edmund Rice Centre called for the ending of mandatory detention and Catholic mission said it…
Monday, 09 February 2015 06:54
GARRISON KEILOR REFLECTIONS
GARRISON KEILOR REFLECTIONS ‘...if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world.’ Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days ‘Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make…
Tuesday, 20 January 2015 12:27
QUOTES: POPE FRANCIS IN THE PHILIPPINES
QUOTES: POPE FRANCIS IN THE PHILIPPINES Pope in the Philippines: Check out his seven best quotes Pope Francis left seven moving messages in the Philippines, as he showed his closeness to the survivors of typhoon Haiyan, listen to the tragic stories of former street children and asked Filipino families to…
Tuesday, 13 January 2015 15:19
TODAY'S VIOLENCE, YESTERDAY'S VIOLENCE - AND FEARS
TODAY'S VIOLENCE, YESTERDAY'S VIOLENCE - AND FEARS. Violence is always with us Letters TheAge January 13, 2015 I look back at the tranquil 1970s. Remember those years when the Middle East was at war and the PLO hi-jacked planes regularly and cruise ships occasionally, and raided the 1972 Olympics? The…
Friday, 09 January 2015 12:43
POPE FRANCIS MEETS YAZIDI LEADER
POPE FRANCIS MEETS YAZIDI LEADER Pope Francis meets Yazidi world leader Pope Francis met with the head of the Yezidi community in the world, Tahsin Said Ali Beg, and its spiritual leader, Skeikh Kato. Both traveled to Rome from the Iraqi Kurdistan to inform the Pope…
Saturday, 20 December 2014 16:40
ANOTHER SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS
ANOTHER SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS From the Age editorial, December 18th 2014. The phrase 'man's inhumanity to man' appeared in the Robert Burns poem Man was made to mourn: A Dirge. The bitter truth of those words was underscored this week as news emerged of the slaughter of more than…
Wednesday, 10 December 2014 09:18
AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE: HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
ACSJC AUSTRALIAN ¨CATHOLIC¨SOCIAL¨JUSTICE¨COUNCIL 24 – 32 O’RIORDAN STREET ALEXANDRIA NSW 2015 Tel: +61 (0) 2 8306 3499 Fax: +61 (0) 2 8306 3498 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Website: www.socialjustice.catholic.org.au Human Rights Day: Time for Australia to Take Stock On Human Rights Day, the Chairman of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council has…
Saturday, 06 December 2014 10:00
CRITIQUE - TONGUE IN CHEEK
CRITIQUE - TONGUE IN CHEEK A visionary PM takes on the eggheads (?) John Birmingham Sydney Morning Herald November 29, 2014 Envy of scientists and ignorance of their work is behind the muted reaction to the slashing of one in five jobs at the CSIRO. Bloody CSIRO. What have they…
Monday, 01 December 2014 08:09
KIRIBATI REPORT: CHILDREN
KIRIBATI REPORT: CHILDREN A new report has found poverty and hardship is taking its toll on the children of Kiribati who make up nearly half the country's population. The report commissioned by the Kiribati government and UNICEF found nearly 15 percent of under five year olds are underweight and only…
Saturday, 22 November 2014 23:15
CHALLENGING IDEAS ABOUT INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIA
Challenging ideas about indigenous Australia Editorial Sydney Morning Herald November 20, 2014 Australia remains blighted by ignorance of, racism towards and disadvantage endured by its indigenous people. Photo: Ray Martin The most powerful leaders on earth have gone and the global gaze has shifted away from Australia, leaving us…
