Research shows that financial hardship is the biggest cause of family breakdown. Many families have gone backwards during the pandemic and people feel embarrassed if they have money issues and this could happen to anyone and people should not feel shame but seek help. Serina talks about what to do if you have financial issue, […]
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Research shows that financial hardship is the biggest cause of family breakdown. Many families have gone backwards during the pandemic and people feel embarrassed if they have money issues and this could happen to anyone and people should not feel shame but seek help. Serina talks about what to do if you have financial issue,
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The war in Ukraine continues. Read our 3 articles about the Morality of War in the 21st Century.
#PrayForUkraine
As Christians each of us is called to be a person of prayer and each of us has to discover the kind of prayer —or rather the kind of setting for prayer – that suits us best. What matters is that we pray. The methods we adopt are of secondary importance and depend to a great extent on knowledge of ourselves, of our strengths and weaknesses.
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Our special guest on The Mission Podcast is the CEO of Caritas Australia, Kirsty Robertson. Kirsty featured on our Figuring out Families Podcasts just over 2 years ago. Caritas Australia is the Catholic Church’s international aid and development agency and is part of one of the largest humanitarian networks in the world.
Kirsty speaks about Project Compassion during Lent which is one of Caritas’ main fundraising drives for the year. She also talks about Caritas’ humanitarian role to help the people in Ukraine and the dreadful toll the war is having on families.
Despite two years of COVID-19, Kirsty says Australians are still donating generously.
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The displacement of thousands of Ukrainians is distressing. Families have fled their homes in terror as Russian bombs reign down and the red tanks roll in.
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Our new podcast series with Professor Daryl Higgins, director of Australian Catholic University’s Institute of Child Protection Studies is timely.
In this first Figuring out Families podcast with Prof Higgins, he says parents need quicker and more improved access to evidence-based support programs to address these rising mental health problems. And he believes primary and secondary schools are well equipped to help deliver the programs that will best meet the needs of young Australians.
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The mental health of young Australians is in the spotlight again with a recent newspaper poll showing one in four young people aged sixteen to twenty-four thought about suicide over the past two years and 15 per cent attempted self-harm. The Age poll reveals a staggering eighty-two per cent said the pandemic caused their mental
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The mental health of young Australians is in the spotlight again with a recent newspaper poll showing one in four young people aged sixteen to twenty-four thought about suicide over the past two years and 15 per cent attempted self-harm. The Age poll reveals a staggering eighty-two per cent said the pandemic caused their mental
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It may be trite to say that St Patrick was a larger than life figure, and yet, that is what he was. There is Patrick the saint whose life is a guide for living by the spirit and values of the gospel of Jesus; and then there is Patrick of the folk tradition. This article focuses on Patrick of the folk tradition.
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