Author: Lawrie Hallinan

The 24th of September is celebrated across the Church as the feast day of Our Lady of Mercy. It was also on this date in 1827 that Catherine McAuley, founder of the Sisters of Mercy, placed her first House of Mercy and her work under the care and protection of

Summary: Social Justice Statement 2018–2019 A Place to Call Home: Making a home for everyone in our land The Australian Catholic Bishops’ Social Justice Statement for 2018–19 is titled A Place to Call Home: Making a home for everyone in our land. It confronts the growing challenge of homelessness and

Recently Paul Oakley and Gabrielle McMullen were invited by Catholic Religious Australia to meet with Prof. Dr. Myriam Wiljens.  Myriam is Chair of Canon Law at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Erfurt in Germany.  Myriam focuses in her research on ecclesiological and ecumenical themes with a particular

Catholic Healthcare’s Community Services spiritual care program has been recognised in Meaningful Ageing Australia’s national awards last night. The Quality in Pastoral and Spiritual Practice Awards celebrate organisations who can demonstrate a sustained and effective program or project that meets the spiritual needs of older people. “These awards come at a critical time

For the Christian churches, we are at a Tipping Point. Recovery will depend on engaging in a thoroughgoing reformation of theology, structures, governance, leadership and culture. Conference Communiqué: Health and Integrity Conference from: http://vox.divinity.edu.au/news/conference-communique-health-and-integrity-conference/ Introduction An ecumenical conversation on the task of rebuilding and renewal for Australian churches following the Royal

Below is an article from the University of Divnity e-newsletter, Vox, on the conference in the USA where Prof. Gabrielle McMullen delivered a paper on the development on the AMPJP:   Creativity in Church Management University of Divinity http://vox.divinity.edu.au/news/creativity-in-church-management/ Earlier this year University Council member Professor Gabrielle McMullen AM was invited

The Association’s Annual General Meeting on Sunday 26th August 2018 and canonical stewards forum, on the following day, were attended by thirty six representatives from all our ten members organisations, as well as Sophia Education Ministries and The Marist Association. Our time together was marked by three prayer periods that

I’m writing this from Melbourne where I am participating in the CHA conference that followed our AMPJP events. (hence the photo from Flinders Street station). While at the CHA conference I had a discussion about governance in Catholic organisations with Peter Pearce, a Board member with Mercy Partner’s Mater Hospital,

Today, the Presidents of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and Catholic Religious Australia have said that they accept 98% of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Furthermore, they have made a commitment that the Church’s shameful history of allowing the most vulnerable to be abused