RAPPVILLE resident John Duncan, 83, lost his home in the early October blazes in northern New South Wales. His daughter Carol, a Newcastle City councillor, saved him and his partner Cassie, who were hiding in a steel shed, by tweeting to the Rural Fire Service. Mr Duncan’s home was one of 45 burned down in the bushfires in Rappville. Those ... Read More »
THEY gathered, foot-stomping and singing, their thurible reimagined as a smoke-machine, with untamed school-holiday haircuts and fluoro wrist-bands; and they radiated a festival fervour suggesting Jagger or Bowie was up next – this was Ignite Conference 2019. More than 1500 young people from across Queensland and New South Wales gathered for four days of sacraments, music and workshops at Mueller ... Read More »
PUT Sr Patricia Dent in front of any piano, but especially her 1970 Yamaha, and prepare to be whisked away on a musical adventure for at least an hour. The beloved Presentation Sister spends nearly every day tinkering on her piano in her living room at Caloundra Rise on the Sunshine Coast. “And if the neighbours don’t hear me play, ... Read More »
GENDER dysphoria educator Fr Joseph Parkinson has recognised the move by a Catholic school principal to allow students struggling with their gender identity to wear a gender-neutral uniform as a wise decision. Fr Parkinson is director of the LJ Goody Bioethics Centre and a priest from the Archdiocese of Perth who has written a paper to assist Catholic schools in ... Read More »
FATHER Bernard (Bernie) Kenny, who died on June 10 aged 86, was known as a notable preacher and for his ministry to the sick and aged. Fr Kenny had been living in Port Macquarie, and his funeral Mass was held at the city’s St Agnes’ Church on June 23. Lismore Bishop Gregory Homeming, priests of the diocese and visiting clergy ... Read More »
DONORS from all over Australia are helping Lismore diocese provide more than 900 mattresses to people devastated by floods in the Lismore and Tweed districts at the end of March. Lismore Bishop Gregory Homeming, new to the diocese, established an appeal to raise funds to buy a new mattress for all those who lost theirs in the flood. The appeal ... Read More »
TRINITY Catholic College principal Marist Brother John Hilet has praised the college community for the spirit it showed in the wake of Lismore’s devastating floods earlier this month. Br Hilet said torrential rain at the start of April from the remnants of Cyclone Debbie produced floodwaters that topped Lismore’s levee bank for the first since it was built 12 years ... Read More »
LISMORE priest Fr Peter Karam has not seen anything like the 2017 flood that inundated his South Lismore church and school. Fr Karam was emotional as he ventured inside Our Lady Help of Christians Church. All the furnishings, with the exception of the pews, have been damaged or destroyed, putting a major curtail on the parish’s Easter celebrations. “It’s the ... Read More »
AUSTRALIA’S newest bishop Gregory Homeming has stepped into the role in Lismore diocese concerned not so much with power, but ready for grace in weakness. Addressing the crowd at the end of his ordination and installation as Bishop of Lismore on February 22, Bishop Homeming, a Carmelite friar, said “at this moment I’ve little idea of what a bishop’s job ... Read More »
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