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May the global church discover light from the Southern Cross 

Part one of an analysis of Australian Church governance report, The Light from the Southern Cross: Promoting Co-Responsible Governance in the Catholic Church in Australia, by Richard R Gaillardetz, the Joseph Professor of Catholic Systematic Theology at Boston College and the current chair of the BC Theology Department. Reprinted with permission from La Croix International, […]

Vale Noel Connolly SSC 

Fr Jim Mulroney SSC is the former Editor of the Sunday Examiner in Hong Kong. He writes about Fr Noel Connolly’s life. Noel died on 6 June 2020. Reprinted with permission from St Columban Mission Society website on 10 June 2020. 

A promising roadmap for ecclesial reform and conversion 

Part two of an analysis of Australian Church governance report, The Light from the Southern Cross: Promoting Co-Responsible Governance in the Catholic Church in Australia, by Richard R Gaillardetz, the Joseph Professor of Catholic Systematic Theology at Boston College and the current chair of the BC Theology Department. Reprinted with permission from La Croix International, […]

Vale Denis Hitchens 

By Mgr Frank Marriott. In the mid to late seventies, I convened a small meeting in Heathcote, Victoria to discuss the lack of a current Official Directory of the Catholic Church – the “Red Book”. Whatever the reasons, The Official Directory had not appeared. Communications amongst the clergy were being hampered and obtaining accurate information […]

Women – seen and not seen during a pandemic 

Sr Patty Fawkner SGS is Congregational Leader of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan. This article was first published in the May 2020 edition of The Good Oil, the e-magazine of the Good Samaritan Sisters www.goodsams.org.au  Cometh the moment, cometh the leader. Around the world, in Oceania, Asia and Europe, we have witnessed displays of […]