Sunday 15 April 2012
IN DECEMBER 2010, CatholicCare joined with MacKillop Family Services and Jesuit Social Services to help care for unaccompanied minors and vulnerable families under the Community Detention Program.
Thursday 29 March 2012
The system for protecting vulnerable children in Victoria is broken—too many children are subject to abuse and neglect, and our systems to prevent that, or to stop it recurring, must be improved.
Sunday 18 March 2012
At a breakfast briefing for leaders from Catholic health and community services in Melbourne on 22 February 2012, Fr Frank Brennan SJ argued that justice in health also requires that we tackle a range of socio-economic conditions and that we work towards a more equitable society.
Thursday 1 March 2012
Thursday 16 February 2012
Gambling looms large in Australian culture, with an estimated three-quarters of the population engaging in some form of gambling each year. And gambling issues are never far from the headlines, particularly when there is a political element.
Sunday 5 February 2012
Pope Benedict XVI's statement for the World Day of Peace on 1 January 2012 is entitled 'Educating Young People in Justice and Peace'.
Sunday, 11 December 2011
Friday 25 November 2011 Advent is a time of yearning to see the presence of Jesus in our world. As Christians, love of neighbour is one of the ways in which we are called to give witness to this presence.
Wednesday 9 November 2011
By Denis Fitzgerald
At this time of year at secondary schools across the country, senior students are preparing to leave the relatively structured life of a senior school student.
Friday 28 October 2011
By Helen Burt
A coalition of housing, welfare and community groups has come together as Australians for Affordable Housing to campaign to get affordable housing on the national political agenda. Many members of Catholic Social Services Victoria are part of this coalition, and CSSV strongly supports the effort to ensure that all Australians have access to decent and affordable housing.
BY Mark Clarke
Each year the Office for Justice and Peace of the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne holds an event to commemorate the 1891 encyclical of Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum.
Friday 14 October 2011
By Rebecca Comini When chaplains Anne Dixon SGS and Marg Hayes step inside the secured walls of a prison and come face to face with a prisoner, they see something other people may not: a person, not a criminal.
By Fr Joe Caddy
As a prison chaplain and the chief executive of CatholicCare, I was asked to launch the ‘Building Bridges, Not Walls – Prisons and the Justice System’ Social Justice Statement of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference for 2011-12.
By Terry O’Shannassy Every day The media is full of belligerent exchanges between nominally civilised political leaders both at home and abroad. Barely a day passes without alleged ‘lies’, pejorative language and personal attacks. To be a leader is to be a target.
Thursday 15 September 2011
The last Sunday in September is usually the day after the AFL Grand Final (even if the vagaries of the fixture have moved this year’s final to 1 October), but that day is also now well established throughout the Church in Australia as Social Justice Sunday.
Thursday 15 September 2011 Each year the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference releases a Social Justice Statement on a contemporary Australian issue. The statement is released to coincide with Social Justice Sunday, this year observed on 25 September.
Friday 19 August 2011
By Denis Fitzgerald In all humility we will do what we can, and in all humility we will entrust the rest to the Lord.Pope Benedict XVI, God is Love
Friday 5 August 2011
BY Denis Fitzgerald On 19 July, an ecumenical Melbourne group, Social Policy Connections, hosted a conference on ‘Churches and Public Policy: Advancing Human Wellbeing in a Changing Society’.
Friday 22 July 2011
By Terry O’Shannassy A dream and a strong sense of purpose have led countless men and women to single-mindedly devote a significant portion of their lives to science, medicine, religion, or other noble pursuits. Outsiders look on uncomprehendingly at the obvious commitment to these diverse causes.
Friday 8 July 2011
By Denis Fitzgerald “The protection and promotion of the inviolable rights of persons ranks among the essential duties of government” – Second Vatican Council, Declaration on Religious Freedom, December 1965.