Tag: Mission
Q&A With Fr John Flader: Missionaries of the Sacred Heart
You have written about St Frances Xavier Cabrini, who founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Is her institute related in any way to the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart founded by Fr Jules Chevalier?
CW readers touched by Fr Toan Nguyen’s story of mission
Readers of The Catholic Weekly from across the country were so impressed by our report on Bankstown’s Fr Toan Nguyen and his missionary trips to Vietnam to assist abandoned orphans, a number of them are supporting his next one in June.
From pews to planes to pursue God’s call to service
Fr Toan Nguyen’s ministry to disabled orphans is his way of living the Gospel he preaches from the pulpit at St Brendan’s in Bankstown
Mission, synodality, health scares and the environment: Pope Francis in 2023
Pope Francis’ 2023 was a year of important trips made or postponed, a predecessor’s funeral and his own 10th anniversary as pope
Catholic Discipleship in a Change of Age
While Christianity has been at the root of many aspects of Western culture, and many of the social institutions that emerged from this Christian...
Ordinary people called to be extraordinary Christian witnesses, pope says
A Christian life and proclaiming Christ ‘inseparable’ Living out and proclaiming the Gospel are inseparable aspects at the heart of an authentically Christian life and witness, Pope Francis said in his message for World Mission Sunday. “Every Christian is called to be a missionary and witness to Christ. And the church, the community of Christ’s […]
A promise unfulfilled: apparent flaws in a Plenary discernment paper
Good, bad, or indifferent, something vital has not been addressed in any of them – the absolute necessity of the power of the Holy Spirit for any of them to bear any fruit.
Big questions: the Pandemic, our Mission and the New Evangelisation
this cataclysm has removed from our path artificial obstacles to new endeavours and underscored the part each of us can play as the baptised in the rebuilding of the new world that awaits
Planning for mission: the future of Sydney Archdiocese is underway
If evangelisation is the priority, our conversion is what leads to it
A vision for the Archdiocese of Sydney
When installed in November 2014, Archbishop Anthony...
Sydney sends 40ft of hope to Jamaica’s poor
A Sydney Catholic community has again thrown a life-saver to its brothers and sisters in Jamaica, collecting and shipping much-needed supplies in a 40ft...
Teresa Hodal: Lose yourself, find yourself
I decided to do the year-long Emmanuel School of Mission in New York in October last year.
The School is run by the Emmanuel Community,...
Forming missionary leaders for the brave new world
A new centre to form missionary leaders for Catholic ministry in the 21st century has been founded in Sydney by Fr Chris Ryan, a...
