Caritas Leave a legacy of Love
According to Caritas: “When you include a gift in your Will to Caritas you can create a life changing legacy which can help transfom the world.”
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Pope’s call to Justice
See the good in everyone; seek the good together – Pope Francis Pope Francis has an unmatched gift to speak to millions of people as if heart-to-heart. He speaks of Christian faith in a way that is fresh and appealing: God loves each one, without exception, intensely and personally. In a homily at Mass in
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Memories of a Broken Night
The 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) when rioters ransacked Jewishhomes, hospitals and schools in Germany and Austria was commemorated in 2018 at Australian Catholic University (ACU) in Melbourne. Systemic racism is an issue that has grown in the public eye and many organisations have been reviewing their own culture to examine where
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School Is Back
How To Know If Your Sending Your Kid to a Good School? One of the biggest decisions for any parent, apart from buying a house, is selecting the right school for their child, especially secondary education. Every child is different and every school is different. Principal of CBC St Kilda Gerald Bain-King offers some practical
Merry Christmas 2020
https://majellan.media/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Christmas-2020-2.mp4 Merry Christmas This year has been different! For those of us in Australia and New Zealand where we are approaching normality, it could be easy to forget the struggles that continue in other countries where infection numbers remain high – and growing, and where many are still suffering. Let us pause a moment each
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Syrian Refugee Viewpoint
By David Ahern It is difficult not to be moved by the plight of refugees who have escaped tyranny and injustice only to find themselves locked away on Nauru in the Pacific or Manus Island in Papua New Guinea. Month after month rolls by and many families languish in stifling conditions, still clinging to hope
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Duc’s Migrant Story
In an ordinary suburban house in an ordinary Australian suburb, there’s a home with an extraordinary story of welcome and love that transcends national and cultural boundaries. Peter and Carol have taken an asylum seeker named Duc into their home and hearts. Apart from the common humanity they share, the three are joined by their
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Loving Down Syndrome
Mary Anne Johnson Like any mother and son, Lorna and Paul Castles have a special bond, and after a lifetime living under the same roof their affection for one another runs deep. Lorna is a sprightly 95 and Paul is 52 and lives with Down’s syndrome. Until last year they were living in the family
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Remembrance Day – Gallipolli
By David Ahern  Earlier this year we marked the 105th anniversary of the first landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula by the allies, including British, French, Indian, Australian and New Zealand soldiers, who tried unsuccessfully to overrun Turkish positions. Australians and New Zealanders were quick to sign up to defend the British Empire, oblivious to
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Dealing With Male Shame
Dealing With Male Shame By Suvi Mahonen On a mild mid-January day in Los Angeles, over 50 years ago, ten-year-old Joseph Burgo was drawing in his bedroom when he heard his father’s car pull up in the driveway, an hour earlier than usual. Excited, he put his pencil down and went out to greet him.
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