The choice is ours, and so are its outcomes
Annually in the Australian Catholic Church on the last Sunday of August (this year on 27 August), we commemorate Social Justice Sunday. For this day, Sr Susan shares a reflection focussing on the Voice. Australians will be required to vote in the referendum on the Voice in a matter of weeks. Each of us will […]
Social Justice Sunday: Listen, Learn, Love
In launching the Australian Bishops’ Social Justice Statement for this year’s Social Justice Sunday (27 August), Listen, Learn, Love, Bishop Vincent Long reminded us of the words of Pope John Paul II when he visited Australia in 1986: The Church in Australia will not be fully the Church that Jesus wants her to be until […]
Social Justice Sunday 2022
History says, don’t hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme.Seamus Heaney As we watch the directions taken by the newly sworn-in Australian Government, we experience encouraging anticipation that hope and history might rhyme more closely.