Sisters of Charity of Australia in Bondi Junction | Religious organisation

Sisters of Charity of Australia

Locality: Bondi Junction

Phone: +61 2 9367 1222

Address: Level 7, 35 Grafton Street 2022 Bondi Junction, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.sistersofcharity.org.au

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25.01.2022 Toyota designed the vehicle to mark the pope’s 2019 visit to Japan.

24.01.2022 The Dominican nun and member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences says that Pope Francis’ encyclical should spur us to reconcile the need for collaboration with the need for competition.

22.01.2022 James Martin sj writes: That tree is very important for me, an older Jesuit said to me, almost 30 years ago. We were at Eastern Point Retreat House in Gloucester, Mass., standing on the broad lawn that overlooks the Atlantic Ocean. It was a bright day and the sun glinted off the water. He pointed to a lone evergreen tree, not that tall, leaning to one side, a bit battered. New to the spiritual life, I had no idea what he was talking about. What’s an important tree? I suppressed the urge to laugh or make a joke.

21.01.2022 In Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis addresses a humanity on the brink and indicates a way forward to a better future for all by treating each other as brothers and sisters of the one human family, Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J., told America after the publication of the encyclical on Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi. We’re on the brink, the cardinal said, because as the coronavirus pandemic spreads across 213 countries and territories people are suffering from a health collapse and an economic collapse, at the same moment as the Paris Climate Agreement I.O.U.s are coming in and there is a migrant situation that is dire. He also pointed to many pointless wars that lack any justification.

21.01.2022 Pope Francis is presenting the Church’s consistent message and is inviting individuals and nations to slow down and to listen and to engage with our brothers and sisters, says Bishop Richard Moth of Arundel and Brighton. The English bishop said the big challenge of the pontiff’s new encyclical Fratelli Tutti is taking the principle set forth in the Gospel parable of the Good Samaritan and invite peoples to look at other peoples through that same lens. The pope’s third encyclical was signed on Oct. 3 in Assisi and released the next day after Francis’s Sunday Angelus. Although the pontiff notes he began the document before the COVID-19 pandemic, the global effect of the coronavirus crisis shaped how it developed.

20.01.2022 The treatment that President Donald Trump has received to fight COVID-19 has turned the focus on an experimental drug that shows promise in combating the coronavirus but is raising ethical questions about the cell line that helped researchers develop the medicine. At the center of attention is the "cocktail" of antibodies in the drug called REGN-COV2 manufactured by New York-based Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. The drug is in the midst of clinical testing but exhibited enough pro...mise that it was administered to the president. Preliminary results show that if administered early in the course of the COVID-19 illness, it can help people fight the disease through the introduction of antibodies that mimic an immune system response, said Dr. Paul Carson, director of the Center for Immunization Research and Education at North Dakota State University and a member of the Catholic Medical Association. Queries about the treatment Trump has received emerged soon after he reported feeling better two days following his admission to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he was taken by helicopter from the White House Oct. 2.

18.01.2022 St Peter's Basilica was decorated elaborately for the creation of 13 new cardinals, though the ceremony was full of reminders of the ongoing pandemic. Very few people were allowed inside the basilica. They were required to wear masks and respect physical distancing. Maltese cardinal Mario Grech greeted the pope on behalf of the new cardinals. During his reflection he spoke about the role of the Church in the current context.

18.01.2022 Continuing his efforts to ensure financial transparency and accountability, Pope Francis named Cardinal Kevin Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life to lead a commission that determines which economic activities remain confidential. The Pope also named Archbishop Filippo Iannone, president of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, as secretary of the newly formed Commission for Reserved Matters.

17.01.2022 Something to reflect on tonight...

17.01.2022 Today, the Vatican will open its first civil trial against a priest accused of sexual abuse. After an investigation that was launched in 2017, the Vatican justice system is trying Gabriele Martinelli, accused of having sexually abused one of his peers at the Vatican's St. Pius X preparatory seminary, when both were studying there. The events occurred before 2012. Both the accused and the victim were minors at the time of the crime. It could also be considered an abuse of powe...r, since the now-priest was in charge of supervising the group at the time. The institution's then-rector is also being investigated for possibly covering up the crime.

17.01.2022 The meetings between Pope Francis and Maradona were marked by mutual affection. In fact, the Vatican has reported that Pope Francis prays for the soccer legend that died on Wednesday.

15.01.2022 The Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development announces a new, intuitive website dedicated to Pope Francis’ encyclical "Fratelli tutti".

12.01.2022 In the run-up to next year’s 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, Pope Francis said he hoped people would read the Italian poet’s work, especially the Divine Comedy, which still resonates today. Dante, in fact, invites us once again to rediscover the lost or clouded sense of our human journey, he said in an audience at the Vatican Oct. 10 with a delegation from the Italian Archdiocese of Ravenna-Cervia. Born in Florence in 1265, Dante played an essential role in Italian literature by writing in the vernacular, not Latin, making literature more accessible to the wider public.

12.01.2022 The tree and Nativity scene will be officially inaugurated on December 11.

12.01.2022 Matt Malone sj writes: It was December 1992, on one of those long, gray winter afternoons when the world seems unbearable. For reasons I don’t recall but I surely thought were dire, I’d had enough of life, at least for the day. So I skipped the class on the history of Canada, footslogged across my dank, windswept campus and climbed the stairs to my dorm room, 8 feet by 12 feet of white painted brick and beige laminate tucked into the northeast corner of the University of Mass...achusetts in Amherst. Much like the solipsistic protagonist in I Am a Rock, that homage to loneliness by Simon and Garfunkel, I fancied myself an escape artist of sorts: I am shielded in my armor/ Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.... I am a rock/ I am an island. I had left my book bag at the student union, and the only book in my room was And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic, by Randy Shilts of The San Francisco Examiner. A cutting, heart-rending account of the first five years of the AIDS epidemic, the book is hardly escapist fare. Still, I wasn’t about to traipse back across the tundra. Six hundred pages later, I closed the book and cried.

11.01.2022 In recognition of the annual Oct. 10 commemoration of World Homeless Day, advocates for those who experience homelessness say they must continue work on an issue that demanded renewed attention in 2020 due to both the first-ever meetings held by the United Nations on the widespread problem and the effects caused by the global pandemic on homelessness. "Homelessness remains a pervasive issue," Daughter of Wisdom Sr. Jean Quinn, executive director of UNANIMA International, a ...U.N.-based coalition of Catholic congregations focused on concerns of women, children, migrants and the environment, said Friday, Oct. 9 during an online UNANIMA webinar/symposium coinciding with the annual world event. While noting the progress made in 2020 to raise the visibility of homelessness as a global issue, particularly during U.N. meetings earlier this year, Quinn and other participants noted that the pandemic's effects have disproportionally affected women and girls, with increases of homelessness and domestic violence reported throughout the world. (Oct. 11 is UNICEF International Day of the Girl 2020.)

11.01.2022 For Catholics, Oct. 4 is widely recognized as the feast of St. Francis of Assisi. Among the best-known and most venerated of the saints, Francis of Assisi has become synonymous in religion pop culture with brown habits, birdbaths and the blessing of animals on his feast day. But beyond pets, Francis is also known as the patron saint of ecology.... What does that mean? Who made that decision? And why? It's the subject of our latest Burning Question here at EarthBeat. Let's get to it. So who was Francis of Assisi?

10.01.2022 Something to reflect on tonight....

10.01.2022 In his new encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis invites all people of goodwill to begin to imagine "a new vision of fraternity and social friendship." Inspired once more by his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, the pope had begun writing about fraternity and dialogue when the COVID-19 pandemic "unexpectedly erupted, exposing our false securities." The pandemic has exposed fissures previously overlooked and issued a stern reminder that finitude and fragility cannot be avoid...ed. Everything and everyone is connected. As I often tell my students, natural disasters, sometimes only briefly, focus our attention to reveal the injustices and inequalities otherwise overlooked by those in power. Diagnosing our current context, the pandemic demands our immediate attention, but it is the globalization of indifference that is our most insidious comorbidity. On Aug. 5, Francis began a weekly general audience series on Catholic social teaching in the midst of COVID-19. Nine weeks that were focused around the most basic principles of Catholic social teaching began with an invitation to "reflect and work together, as followers of Jesus who heals, to construct a better world, full of hope for future generations." For those unfamiliar with Catholic social teaching, these nine audiences provide a primer into how Francis understands human dignity, the universal destination of goods, solidarity, subsidiarity and such concepts. For those well-versed in Catholic social teaching, these messages provide some added theological depth to the encyclical's application of the concepts to larger social and economic crises. Within Fratelli Tutti, there is an immense amount of content. It synthesizes much of Francis' social magisterium. The goal is to draw all people of goodwill into a long-overdue conversation about the practical moral obligations within the one human family.

10.01.2022 Deck the halls!

09.01.2022 In his third encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, meaning Brothers all, the pope compiles and categorizes the main proposals of the social discourses of his pontificate, in Rome and during his trips. He summarizes them in an encyclical, to propose them as a solemn magisterium addressed to all Catholics.

09.01.2022 One of the largest virtual choirs we’ve seen sings a prayer to the Blessed Mother to perfection.

08.01.2022 In a video message for his December prayer intention, Pope Francis speaks about the power of prayer to change reality and our hearts, and prays that, through a life of prayer, we may nourish our relationship with Jesus Christ.

08.01.2022 Something from our Founder, Mary Aikenhead, this morning: We have only the merciful and often truly miraculous friend and Almighty Providence to confide in, and let us pray fervently that Divine Faith may be mercifully granted to us in proportion as our confidence is exercised. Amen!

08.01.2022 Pope Francis’ new encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, does something that some Catholics believed could not be done: It ratifies a change in church teaching. In this case, on the death penalty. In 2018, Pope Francis ordered a change in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the official compendium of church teaching, when he termed the death penalty inadmissible. Today the pope placed the full weight of his teaching authority behind this statement: The death penalty is inadmissible, and Catholics should work for its abolition. A papal encyclical is one of the highest of all documents in terms of its authority, removing any lingering doubt about the church’s belief.

07.01.2022 On Sept. 24, Providence Sr. Barbara Battista stood across the street from where her spiritual directee died just two days before. She had been with him when he was pronounced dead at 9:06 p.m. Sept. 22. "I can tell you that my experience was of a man who was at peace, eyes clear, face relaxed," she said.... That fact might seem surprising, since her spiritual directee was a man on federal death row named William LeCroy, convicted for the 2001 rape and murder of Joann Lee Tiesler. He had been under the influence of witchcraft and mistook her for a babysitter he claimed had sexually abused him when he was a child, according to The Washington Post.

07.01.2022 A thought from our Foundress Mary Aikenhead for today: Let us all unite in prayer and may peace and resignations reign in all hearts.

06.01.2022 Sr. Mary Nibedita, member of the Associates of Mary, Queen of Apostles in Bangladesh, has been working as a nurse for 42 years after 10 years as a teacher. She enjoyed both ministries, but the 74-year-old nun has been recognized for serving in the health sector: In 1990, she received the Best Nurse Award from President H.M. Ershad. She said she has been blessed with enormous love, respect and trust from people for her dedicated service as a nurse in various non-Christian hosp...itals. She has continued her work as principal of the nursing institute of Universal Medical College and Hospital in Dhaka through the pandemic. The Associates of Mary, Queen of Apostles is a local congregation with 132 nuns working in catechesis, teaching, health care and women's empowerment. Nibedita spoke with Global Sisters Report about her life's story and the present state of health care in Bangladesh.

06.01.2022 Clapton penned this touching hymn to the Blessed Mother when at his lowest.

05.01.2022 As the number of suicides in Japan mount amid the ongoing fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, the country’s bishops have issued a statement for the one-year anniversary of Pope Francis’s visit last year, calling, among other things, for solidarity with the poor and an end to discrimination against the infected. In light of COVID-19, We must recognize each other as brothers and sisters, and build our everyday relationships, societies, politics and social systems based on fra...ternity, dialogue and fellowship, the Japanese bishops said in a statement signed by Archbishop Joseph Takami of Nagasaki, who leads the Japanese Bishops’ Conference. Published Nov. 23 to coincide with the one-year mark of Pope Francis’s arrival to Japan last year, the bishops’ statement noted that the modern world is filled with a catalogue of ideas and actions which deny or destroy fraternal relationships.

05.01.2022 The president of Poland’s Bishops’ Conference has said the Vatican rejected his request to have St John Paul II declared a Doctor of the Church and patron saint of Europe. Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki of Poznan said most bishops worldwide also ignored the proposal.

04.01.2022 Continuing its efforts to combat money laundering and financial mismanagement, the Vatican amended its transparency laws and expanded the role of its financial watchdog agency in monitoring financial transactions. According to a statement released Oct. 10, the Vatican said it updated its legislation, more commonly known as Law XVIII. Passed in 2013, Law XVIII regulated financial activities and paved the way for collaboration and an exchange of information between the Vatican’...s Financial Information Authority, known by the Italian acronym AIF, and its international counterparts, and monitored financial transactions. In an interview with Vatican News published Oct. 10, Carmelo Barbagallo, a seasoned Italian finance inspector who was appointed to lead AIF by Pope Francis in late November, said the updated law followed an anti-money laundering directive adopted by the European Union in 2018.

04.01.2022 Political theologian, Professor Anna Rowlands, reflects on Pope Francis’ urgent call to look at the world differently and take concrete action through a true encounter with reality.

04.01.2022 A thought from our Foundress Mary Aikenhead for today: We must try our best to be faithful.

04.01.2022 Something to reflect on this evening...

03.01.2022 Reactions to Pope Francis’s recently released encyclical Fratelli tutti continue to pour in, with bishops and Catholic aid organizations praising his vision of a future based on human solidarity.

03.01.2022 The start of October marks the first anniversary of the Synod for the Amazon, which put the periphery the remote Amazon basin at the center of the Catholic Church's attention for a month. Many media reports focused on proposals that the diaconate be opened to women and that married men be ordained so that Catholics in remote communities could have greater access to the Eucharist. But the Amazonian indigenous people at the synod, with voice but no vote, had a different age...nda. They hoped that Pope Francis, as a world leader with a voice on the international stage, would draw attention to the growing violence against indigenous peoples and their territories, Gregorio Díaz Mirabal, the leader of an umbrella group of Amazonian indigenous organizations, told me during a break between sessions. A year later, the threats to the Amazon basin's people, and the forests and rivers on which their lives depend, have been compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.

03.01.2022 Your Gospel for today...

03.01.2022 With the speed and dexterity of a professional chef, Maronite Father Hani Tawk chops first 65 pounds worth of onions for a vegetable stew. I never cooked before this, he admits. With his new-found skills and the help of a small team of volunteers, the priest prepares nearly 600 meals five days a week for those in need in blast-stricken Beirut.... Together they work in a cinderblock and concrete space, not much larger than the size of a double garage, in the Karantina section of Beirut a low-income, semi-industrial neighborhood just 500 feet from the site of the apocalyptic blast at the port Aug. 4.

01.01.2022 One of the Pope’s key advisers on clerical child sexual abuse has reached out to survivors who recently wrote an open letter to the bishops of England and Wales urging change in the way victims and survivors are treated. Fr Hans Zollner, president of the Centre for Child Protection at Rome’s Gregorian University and a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, wrote in response after the survivors contacted him following the damning report into the Catholic Church, produced by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA). In his letter he said that he recognised the suffering and distress that victims and survivors in England and Wales had endured, and went on to admit that there is much work still to be done on safeguarding.

01.01.2022 The birth of capitalism is often associated with Protestantism. But the roots of capitalism are slightly different.