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Congregation Leadership Group

Standing L-R: Edmund Garvey, Michael Colasuonno, Julian McDonald, Ted Magee, Matthieu Daum (facilitator), Kevin Griffith, Michael De Klerk, Richard Walsh, Dean McGlaughlin, Clement Sindazi, Dominic Sassi, Steve Fernandes, Hugh O’Neill, John Casey. Seated L-R: Francis Hall, Peter Clinch, Donal Kirk, Kevin Bernard, Albert Gomez, Hugo Caceres, George Massay, Peter Dowling, Alfred Banda, Gussy Jairaj.
Australians Support Renewables Over Coal

The Lowy Institute Poll 2018: Understanding Australian Attitudes to the World has reported that Australians overwhelmingly believe that the government should focus on renewable energy over coal-fired power plants, even if such measures were to cost more.
Pacific Calling Partnership

Pacific Calling Partnership is excited to announce its newest patrons committed to finding a global solution for vulnerable Pacific Island states in the face of climate change!
Aboriginal Student's Religious Art

Clontarf Aboriginal College celebrates Religious Education Week with events which highlighted Clontarf’s creative approach to Religious Education woven into culture.
Edmund Rice Camps Eldoret

Everyone at ERC Eldoret had been waiting anxiously for Saturday, June 9. Instead of the usual children's camp at The Door in Langas, we had an exciting new outdoor activity for the kids: hiking and adventure at Kessup Falls near Iten, in Elgeyo Marakwet County.
Edmund Rice West Australia

Common Goal is a soccer academy that operates in Mirrabooka and Cannington in Perth WA. It is a large program and part of our Youth Services at the Edmund Rice Centre WA.

PCP Welcomes Newest Patrons Cardinal Rabat and Dr O'Brien

PCP Patron Cardinal Rabat Archbishop of Port Moresby since 2008 and Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni Battista de’ Rossi since 2016

Pacific Calling Partnership (PCP) is excited to announce our newest patrons committed to finding a global solution for vulnerable Pacific Island states in the face of climate change!

Cardinal Ribat, Archbishop of Port Moresby since 2008 and Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni Battista de’ Rossi since 2016, has agreed to be a patron of PCP and we’re very happy to have him with us. Cardinal Ribat is a dedicated advocate for the people and families threatened by sea-level rise and as the first Catholic Church Cardinal for Papua New Guinea's (PNG) he is a part of spreading acknowledgment of the church in “small places” and has helped to put places like PNG and the issues facing them on the global stage.

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Oceania Province Weekly News August 10^th

Articles include:

Profession of First Vows - North America
Congratulations to Brother Robert Droel who professed his First Vows of Poverty, Chastity and Obedience on July 28, 2018 at Sacred Heart Church in Palos Hills, IL. The Rite of Religious Profession took place in the context of a Eucharistic celebration. Rob’s vows were received by Brother Kevin Griffith, Edmund Rice Christian Brothers North America Province Leader. Br Julian McDonald represented the Congregation Leadership Team at the ceremony.
A Spirituality of Re-enchantment
The 13.7 billion year history of our universe has been marked by the ongoing rise of consciousness, culminating at this point in time in the reflective consciousness of the human. Each step along the way might be labelled as a ‘transformation of consciousness.’
The first lesson comes from nature. All animals, all life forms (taken right down to raw matter) have a degree of consciousness in that they are all subject and reactive to that which draws them on. Call it emergence, call it evolution, call it Creation (God’s). We are in the hands of a power greater then ourselves.
West Australia Edmund Rice Movement Gathering
The WA Wisdom Group held their annual CB and Associate Schools and Ministries gathering on Monday 30 July 2018 at Aranmore College, one of our Associate Schools. Thirty six people attended, not just from schools but also from ERCWA, ER Camps, Tuart Place, Clontarf Aboriginal College and Wheelchairs 4 Kids. It was very low key: wine and finger food and a chance to meet each other.
Links to Other Communications
Transition Support Team Bulletin No 24
A Feast of the Assumption of Mary Prayer to Commemorate the first Brothers professing Vows in 1808

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Against Trafficking in Humans

News Release … July 30 2018

ACRATH (Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans) has launched a national fund-raising appeal after today’s announcement from the Federal Government revealed that it would not be funding ACRATH this year.

ACRATH’s $125,000 one-year grant from the Federal Government ran out on June 30 2018.

ACRATH’s Executive Officer Christine Carolan said the organisation was hopeful of further Government funding in the future, but was now completely reliant on the generosity of the community to continue working to combat modern day slavery and forced marriage.

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Training for Kiribi Leaders

ERC Homebush

In February, the Pacific Calling Partnership hosted eight leaders from Kiribati for the Australian Awards Fellowship, which was funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Topics covered included Critical Reflection, Resilience and Social and Emotional Well-being, Australian Studies, Climate Change, Leading In Organisations, Leading with Moral Purpose, Monitoring and Evaluation and Mentoring. The group visited Canberra to meet with Members of Parliament and went to Newcastle to see the coal mines that have contributed to the challenges the people of Kiribati face.

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News and Media - Edmund Rice Centre

Climate change must be at the heart of any new Pacific agreement

Climate change should be at the heart of any new Biketawa Plus regional security declaration, not any afterthought, according to the Edmund Rice Centre's Pacific Calling Partnership (PCP) initiative.
Reports of more overseas aid cuts shows Government is out of step with most Australians

The Edmund Rice Centre has today expressed its grave concerns over reports that the Turnbull Government is considering a $400 million a year cut to the overseas aid budget.
Keynote address to Catholic Social Services Conference 2018

In late-February, ERC Director Phil Glendenning delivered the keynote speech to the Catholic Social Services Conference in Melbourne. Phil spoke about the deficit of leadership in Australian society, including in politics and the Catholic Church. He called for an honest and compassionate response by the Catholic Church to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which must include a fundamental shift in power relations. It is not good enough to say "yes terrible wrongs were committed, but the Catholic Church runs many schools, hospitals and social services".
Politicians should visit Kiribati or Tuvalu before pretending to be climate change experts

Following a speech by former Prime Minister Tony Abbott in London overnight in which he questioned the science of climate change, the Edmund Rice Centre has issued an open invite to Australia’s 226 Federal politicians to visit Kiribati and Tuvalu to see first-hand the impacts of climate change in our region.
Australian Government playing fast and loose with the lives of Rohingya refugees

Director of the Edmund Rice Centre and President of the Refugee Council of Australia Phil Glendenning has called on the Turnbull Government to immediately rule out any forced deportations or removal of Rohingya refugees from Australia or from Australian-run detention centres.
Thank you, Russell Broadbent: Now it’s time for Turnbull and Shorten to take action

Director of the Edmund Rice Centre and President of the Refugee Council of Australia, Phil Glendenning, has welcomed Liberal MP Russell Broadbent’s call for refugees on Manus Island and Nauru to be brought to Australia once the US resettlement deal has run its course.