Frank O’Dea SSS, is over 90 years of age and living in aged care. He reflects on a time without the celebration of Mass and the distractions of regular activities for the residents in this age of Coronavirus social distancing.
Nimmi Candappa is a university researcher and enjoys the challenge of living out her faith and writing about faith. In this article she explores the role of women in the first Easter story. Where is it calling us today? She also has a poem elsewhere in this edition of The Swag.
Clem Colla, a woodcarver from Hawthorndene, SA, has realised a boyhood dream by handcrafting a wooden set of the Stations of the Cross which now adorn the walls of his local church. Reprinted with permission: The Southern Cross, Adelaide. Photographer – Nat Rogers.
The article below is a preamble to a longer submission to the Plenary Council regarding the six themes identified by the writing groups. It was prepared by Dr Rene Pols on behalf of the TEAMS movement.
John Warhurst, Chair of Concerned Catholics Canberra Goulburn, presented this speech at a forum at the Commercial Club, Wagga Wagga on October 24, 2019. It presents an overview of the possibilities for church renewal in Australia.
