The South Australian Parliament has passed a law, effective in October, which requires priests to report cases of child sexual abuse heard during confession.
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Youth Survey Highlights Concerns
In 2017, the Australian Catholic Bishop’s Conference initiated a survey of young people aged 16 to 29 to highlight the concerns of young people.
The survey was the largest ever survey of young Catholics. Archbishop Fisher, the Bishop’s delegate for youth, revealed that over 15 000 young Catholics responded ‘passionately and earnestly’.
World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation
In 2015, Pope Francis declared September 1 as the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation.
NSW Catholic Schools Helping Farmers
The Catholic Voice has reported on the action of Catholic Schools across NSW who are helping the drought affected farmers. Schools are helping in a variety of ways, including fee relief, counselling and donations.
Engaging Parents in Sacramental Programs
– Written by Janita Proud
Does My Child Need to Participate in the Sacraments? Many parents, even Catholic ones, ask themselves this question when they send their children off to Catholic Schools. Often they have trouble deciding, because they don’t really even know what a sacrament is, or what sacramental programs entail.
Remembering World Youth Day 2008
The first Oceania World Youth Day was celebrated in Sydney in 2008.
Almost 500 000 people and more than 200 countries took part in the WYD week’s celebrations, but over the weekend more than 1 million people attended the festival events. In addition, there were more than 600 bishops and cardinals and 6 600 reporters from around the world. Pope Benedict also attended.
Plenary Council 2020 – Future of the Catholic Church in Australia
Back in the early 2000’s, the bishops of Australia could see that the Catholic Church in Australia needed to consider moving towards a national Church event, or celebration, to give the Catholic Church in Australia a course to move into the future. Over ten years on, the bishops decided to move towards a ‘Plenary Council’.
Vatican Document – Dangers of Competitive Children’s Sports
On 1 June, 2018, the Vatican issued a new document warning against the dangers of competitive children’s sports.