SHIRLEY Strickland’s a champion – not to be confused with the hurdler Shirley Strickland who won Olympic gold for Australia in Helsinki in 1952 and Melbourne in 1956. But she’s a true champion for hundreds of children she’s met in Religious Instruction classes at Albany Hills State School at Albany Creek, north of Brisbane, over more than 20 years. Carole ... Read More »
AUSTRALIA has maintained a solid momentum of economic growth over a quarter of a century – the longest economic growth in the western world – yet the benefits of this good fortune have not been distributed equally. This inequality forms the basis for the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Social Justice Statement 2017–18, titled Everyone’s Business: Developing an inclusive and sustainable economy. ... Read More »
THE Catholic Church in Australia, in its submissions to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and in its communications with both the Catholic and broader communities has made the following commitment: The leaders of the Catholic Church in Australia recognise and acknowledge the devastating harm caused to people by the crime of child sexual abuse. We ... Read More »
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