Catholic Religious Australia Pathways
"Our redeemer is young because he is alive, He radiates life," he said. "But if Jesus Christ is gloriously young, then His Body, the Church, is likewise meant to be young. This is the Church our young people want to discover, one that is vital and alive in Christ. Our task is to rediscover this young Church, as a new gospel fire." But, he asks if the Successors of the Apostle have stagnated in the Spirit, "lost our missionary fire and become beholden to a 'fake gospel' of religious maintenance? Then let a pebble of spiritual disruption be dropped into our stagnant pools, to stir us back to Pentecost!"
This edition includes the topics:
- Catholic Religious to follow National Apology with Day of Sorrow & Promise
- Indigenous Catholics 'a young and growing group in the Church'
- Fr Gerald Arbuckle calles on Catholic healthcare to respond to growing problem of loneliness
- Faith groups meet on reportable conduct scheme
- Man Box study to look at attitudes & behaviours of young men
- CRA supports faith leaders & refugee advocates in campaign for more humane policies
- CRA supports faith leaders & refugee advocates in campaign for more humane policies
- Sr Maureen providing for those doing it tough in Hall's Creek
- No age limit on mission for senior SVDs
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UN Landmark Climate Change Report
The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released a landmark report which warned there are only a dozen years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5 degrees Celsius and limit a climate change catastrophe.
The release of the report comes as the Edmund Rice Centre's Pacific Calling Partnership initiative is preparing to host a two-week visit by former President of Kiribati Anote Tong, who will use his visit to intensify his call for Australia to take urgent action to combat climate change.
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Mission Capacity Support Team (MCST)
The MCST comprises of Mission Coordinators from various Regions and Provinces and of other representatives of Edmund Rice Development Mission globally. We meet for about a week biannually and the Stellenbosch meeting was hosted by the Leadership of the Africa Province, led by Br Michael De Klerk and Br Clement Sindazi.
The MCST is towards the end of the first year of a complex three year project under the stewardship of the CLT – it is the only project the CLT are the governors of. In the lead-up to Stellenbosch we measured how each Mission Development Office (MDO) was faring and realised that we had made limited progress, faster in some areas and slower in others because we were starting from different base lines.
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Wilderness Retreat in the Grampians
Terry’s Casey Reports
"In God's wildness lies the hope of the world, the great, fresh, unlighted, unredeemed wilderness." (John Muir)
I have just returned from my recent experience of “Walking with God in the Grampians” facilitated by the "Being with God in Nature" team of the Campion Centre of Spirituality, it was everything that the brochure quoted below promised it would be.
One participant came from Hong Kong, another from Canberra, another from New Zealand, myself from WA and others local or country Victorian. A range of ages but all with a good level of fitness, three of us in our 70’s. and all made it to the top.
In the year when our spirituality Theme is The Whole Earth Community, it offered me a chance to experience first-hand the joy and challenge of discovering the Presence of the Divine in the realm of the world of created beings. I am looking forward to my next adventure on the Bibbulmun track which will have an added dimension.
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Eco-spirituality and
Journeying Together
A paper-back book edited by Br David Gibson cfc
Ecospirituality and Journeying Together offers a rich selection of articles on this topic. Over the years, Christian Brothers have been reflecting on the New Universe Story and have sought to connect the new knowledge that has come from cosmology to their spiritual practices.
There are articles by: David Gibson, Moy Hitchen, Mark O'Loughlin, Michael Godfrey, Trevor Parton, Peter Harney and others.
This paperback is available through AMAZON and will cost $9.
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ERC Justice Matters October 2018 No.3
Issues presented in this edition include"
- Updates on the situation of the refugees on Nauru & Manus Island for 1906 dayes
- AMA demands urgent fix to humanitarian emergency on Nauru
- Pope Paul VI & Oscar Romero were elevated to Sainthood October 14th in Rome.
- "These brothers and sisters of ours were trying to escape difficult situations to find some serenity and peace...How often do such people fail to find understanding, fail to find acceptance, fail to find solidarity?" Pope Francis
- Visit to Australia by climate warrior and former Former President of Kiribati, Anote Tong.
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News and Media - Edmund Rice Centre
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Visit to Australia by Former President of Kiribati
In October 2018, the Edmund Rice Centre’s Pacific Calling Partnership is bringing one of the world’s foremost voices for climate justice to Australia. Anote Tong, climate warrior and former President of Kiribati will be meeting with politicians, talking to the media, conducting workshops and giving public talks in Melbourne and Sydney.
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Pacific voices slam Australia's inaction on emissions
The IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C is a sobering reminder that Pacific Island nations could be wiped out by climate change, and that Australia and other polluter nations are standing idly by as the tragedy unfolds, said the Pacific Calling Partnership.
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Australia's commitment to the Pacific? No way to treat family
Australia looks to be withdrawing from the Pacific at precisely the time our Pacific neighbours are calling for increased and urgent involvement from Australia.
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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.
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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.
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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".