Tag: Evangelisation

Mission is more than preaching or conversion. It is the continuation of Christ’s work through encounter, discipleship and witness in everyday life.

Easter is a busy time of year for many regional Catholic parishes, as churches across rural and coastal Australia prepare for a surge of worshippers not seen at any other point in the calendar.

About 50 people gathered in Lewisham earlier this month to reflect on the thought of Italian priest Fr Luigi Giussani and his book At the Origin of the Christian Claim.

Australia ceased to be a mission country on 22 March 1976. Pope Paul VI pronounced the decision in a document bearing the name Australiam Terram.

The only thing that might really be stopping the world from being evangelised is you.

While many flock to their local parish for the Easter Triduum, over a thousand people have participated in the biannual Light to the Nations Easter Youth Pilgrimage.

A growing number of Gen Z men aged 18-28 in Australia are identifying as Christian, often after years of indifference.

The increasing number of people who do not see the Gospel as a fundamental resource for their life should inspire – not discourage – Catholics in rediscovering the joy of evangelisation, Pope Leo XIV said.

Those who find their way to the Farm at Galong, the residential program for women recovering from substance misuse and domestic violence, provide a great lesson to Catholics on the godless condition of the modern world.

If Paul VI was right about witnesses being evangelists, then Jimmy Lai the Hong Kong entrepreneur, newspaperman, and human rights advocate who has now spent more than 1,800 days in solitary confinement in Stanley Prison, and who was recently “convicted” in a sham “trial” of being a threat to Hong Kong’s “national security” is one of Catholicism’s most compelling evangelists.

More than 200 young Catholics committed themselves to lives of holiness and evangelisation after an eight-day Summer School of Evangelisation retreat held at the Mt Carmel Retreat Centre in Varroville in January.

In a 19 October ceremony, Bishop Louis Tylka of Peoria led local church and civic leaders in breaking the ground outside of the Spalding Institute to launch a project to convert Venerable Fulton J. Sheen's alma mater into a cultural center blending faith, history and innovation.