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The AMPJP welcomed the establishment of CPSL by the leadership of the Australian Catholic Church as part of the Church’s response to the Royal Commission’s revelations of institutional failure in the management and response to child sexual abuse claims in Catholic organisations including schools, parishes and homes. The establishment of

If you are like me it takes most of January to get used to writing 2018 instead of 2017. My see the year ahead as being a great one for AMPJP. After having spent the last year or so in our establishment phase we are now ready for action. On 30th January I had a very productive Strategic Plan drafting meeting with AMPJP Council members: Paul Oakley, Eva Skira and Rosemary Copeland. This will be discussed at the AMPJP Council meeting on 21 February and I believe the resulting Strategic Plan will give us all a greater common sense of purpose.

The Australian Bishops have identified the liturgical year of 2018, beginning on the first Sunday of Advent (3rd December 2017), as a national Year of Youth.   The Year of Youth invites the Church, including Ministerial PJPs, into prayerful discernment about the importance and life-giving presence of young people in

Ministerial PJPs will join others within the Church on the journey to Easter through the season of Lent (14 Feb – 29 March 2018).   Pancake Tuesday In Australia, Caritas’ Project Compassion is often a vehicle for the Lenten practices of prayer, penance and almsgiving. A pancake fundraiser for Caritas

Sisters and brothers may we all be mothers to our Lord Jesus Christ by giving birth to him in the actions of our lives. Paraphrased from St Francis of Assisi’s First Letter to the Faithful 1221 AD

The Dominican Education Australia (DEA) office has relocated to 3 Mary Street Hunters Hill. They are occupying the ground floor of the Provincial Office of the Marist Fathers who have been very welcoming. The new DEA postal address for all correspondence is: PO Box 191, Gladesville NSW 1675. General enquiries

A very clear explanation of the role of PJP Trustees (Canonical Stewards) can be found in the most recent edition of Journeys the Mary Aikenhead Ministries newsletter. The article “One Mission: Many Ministries” on pages 1 and 2 of the newsletter was written by Professor Gabrielle McMullen AM. In the

Today the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse concludes. The Commissioners and their staff have worked tirelessly for the past five years: 42,041 calls handled 25,964 letters and emails recieved 8,013 private sessions held 2,575 referrals to authorities (including to police) It is now up to all individuals

The Catholic Church’s care for the sick, especially through Catholic-run hospitals, is an antidote to “the business mentality that is seeking worldwide to turn health care into a profit-making enterprise,” Pope Francis said. In his message for World Day of the Sick, Feb. 11, the pope urged Catholics individually and

The AMPJP offered me the option of working from home but I decided that an office elsewhere would give me more enjoyment of my home. I was fortunate to find an affordable room on the first floor of the building that houses the Newcastle Catholic Parish office (in the former St Joseph’s Convent). The room that AMPJP is renting is very spacious and its wall colour and decorations give it a formal atmosphere. The AMPJP bought a laptop with two-screen docking station. I chose to have a standing desk and I find it keeps me conscious of my posture and moving between tasks more than I did when I used a computer while seated.