French Xavierian Sister Nathalie Becquart, recently appointed by Pope Francis as under-secretary to the Vatican Synod of Bishops, will address an Australian Cardijn Institute webinar on the theme “Lay People and Synodality” next month. Sr Nathalie is the first woman to hold such a role in the Synod. In another
French theologian, Fr Eric Mahieu, will be the presenter for the June ACI webinar, which will focus on the theology of the great French Dominican priest, Yves Congar, a major 20th century theologian and a key actor at the Second Vatican Council. Flyer: Theology of the Laity
Online Lecture. Canadian Cardinal Michael Czerny, SJ, president of the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, will address the theme “Siblings All, Sign of the Times: The Social Teaching of Pope Francis,” which is also the title of his newly published book of the same name jointly authored with
This is a program in Perth WA is designed for youth leaders, youth ministers, parish workers, teachers, seminarians, priests and religious, who are working with or would like to work on forming young people as lay missionary disciples of Jesus active in the world today. It responds particularly to the
This year is the 40th anniversary of the Vatican II document, Lumen Gentium, which presented the Church as the “People of God” and includes the pathbreaking Chapter 4 on The Laity. For our first ACI webinar of 2024 on Wednesday 7 February, ACI has invited Bishop Eugene Hurley, emeritus bishop
Lumen Gentium 1964 - 2024 This year is the 40th anniversary of the Vatican II document, Lumen Gentium, which presented the Church as the “People of God” and includes the pathbreaking Chapter 4 on The Laity. ACI has invited Dr Paul Lentern to host a dialogue on this key topic
For our April webinar, we will again follow up on our “Mission and vocation of lay people” theme with Bishop Peter Cullinane, emeritus bishop of Palmerston North, Aotearoa-New Zealand. The webinar will take place on Saturday 6 April 2024 at 10am Sydney time, 12 noon Wellington time. Register now
International YCS secretary-general, Innocent Odongo, will be ACI’s guest speaker for our May webinar at 7pm AEST on Wednesday 8 May 2024. He will share his experience with the Young Catholic Students movements in his home country of Ghana as well as at international level, highlighting the achievements and challenges
For our next ACI webinar, we have a very special guest from the USA, Fr Louis Cameli, Cardinal Cupich’s delegate for formation and mission in the Archdiocese of Chicago. Citing the significant historical role played by the Cardijn movements in the USA, he recently called for the Church to retrieve
For our July webinar, we have a very special guest, former Melbourne YCW leader and trade unionist, Brian "Brother" Smiddy. In collaboration with Jean Ker Walsh, Brian has recently published his autobiography "Brother Smiddy - This worker life," which tells the story of how he came to be such a
Discovering God through Action & Reflection The spirituality of the Young Christian Students Friends, Our special guest this month is South African Fr Mike Deeb O.P., founding chaplain to the Young Christian Students in South Africa and later chaplain to the International YCS. He was also Permanent Delegate to the
Cardijn Associates USA and the Australian Cardijn Institute are honoured to host Nate Tinner-Williams, co-founder and editor of the Black Catholic Messenger, for a webinar on "Being a Synodal Missionary Church" to be held on Saturday 28 September, 2024 at 7.30am AEST. Nate will be travelling to Rome to report
I'm sure you're all very aware of the human tragedy unfolding in the Middle East, particularly in Gaza, Palestine and more broadly in the whole Middle East. This month we are privileged to welcome Australian international human rights consultant, Chris Sidoti, a member of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry
This year, ACI is pleased to announce that the Cardijn Lecture for 2024 will be delivered by Dr Patricia Jones. Her subject will be: “Patrick Keegan, first lay auditor to address Vatican II.” Looking back over the 60 years since Keegan delivered his address to the Council on 13 October
