More than 30 bishops concelebrated Mass at Our Lady of Lebanon Co-Cathedral on Sunday 7 May, taking part in ongoing celebrations for the 50th jubilee of the Maronite Eparchy in Australia.

“We should not be afraid of proclaiming the truth, but of doing so without charity, without heart.”

In his message for this year’s World Social Communications Day Pope Francis builds on the themes of his recent World Communications Day messages.

In 2021 he asked us to Encounter People Where and as They Are. In 2022 he asked us to Listen with the Ear of the Heart. This year, he calls for us to seek and speak the truth and to do so with a pure heart and with charity.

The Senior Learning Centre at St Francis of the Fields Primary School in Strathfieldsaye was officially blessed by Bishop Shane Mackinlay on Friday 28 April. 

Addressing students, Bishop Shane emphasised that the most important thing built up in a school is not the buildings, but the students themselves, each one of them a gift from God. 

Join Catholic Social Services Victoria (CSSV) and Catholic Social Services Australia (CSSA) at a series of weinars to discuss the upcoming referendum on Constitutional Recognition for Aoriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and the Voice to Parliament.

Learn from legal, historical and theological experts, and hear from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders aout their experiences, hopes and concerns for the Voice referendum in 2023.

Shepparton's Damon Vasterink is one of many Australian athletes who will compete at the sixth edition of the Virtus Global Games, the world's largest elite sport event for athletes with an intellectual impairment. Thousands of athletes from Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Oceania will compete across ten main sports in Vichy France, from 4-10 June.

Truth telling and speaking with the heart were running themes of Catholic Mission's recent 'One Heart Many Voices' conference. 

On Friday May 5, the Catholic Education Sandhurst community celebrated the outstanding contribution of seven committed staff who have given 25 years plus service to Catholic Education.

Graduate Teachers learned collaboratively from expert presenters Glen Pearsall, Lucy Buncle and CES education officers at the Catholic Education Sandhurst (CES) Graduate Residential Conference in Moama last week. 

Deputy Principals from Sandhurst schools took part in a full day of media training on Wednesday 10 May with journalist Sam Elam, director of Media Manoeuvres.