PARISH Archives

Bulletin 30 Sept 2018

After my two and a half months away on sabbatical, it’s so good to be home!
A warm welcome, sunny skies, familiar faces and a known place to lay my head; I’m
back among family and friends. I had a great time in the Holy Land but there’s no place
like home. I’m very conscious of ‘home’ and all that it means this weekend on Social Justice
Sunday as our Australian bishops remind us of the scourge of homelessness in their
Statement ‘A Place to Call Home: Making a Home for Everyone in our Land.’ Fr Chris

Bulletin 23 Sept 2018

Bulletin Sept 23 2018

Putting aside all our ideas of self importance

Those guilty of abuse, of harassment or cover up must be brought to justice. At the same time we are invited patiently to engage in honest listening and discernment. Perhaps this might start with a more responsible use of social media. . . . “We must be imaginative enough to make conflict “a link in the chain of a new process” a process of constant personal and institutional conversion- the only thing that makes us authentic followers of Jesus.”

The Catholic hierarchy’s problem with sex

This is a three-part series exploring the Catholic hierarchy’s problem with sex . . . . It’s not just the crisis of sexual abuse and cover up, which is ghastly enough. If we think back over the span of time since Vatican II, almost every divisive controversy within the Catholic Church has been about sex.

Bulletin 16 Sept 2018

Conversations Catholics need to have

Fr Timothy is known for his views on things like homosexuality, divorce and remarriage, and the authority of women in the Catholic Church – areas in which he has pushed for open conversation and an embrace of difference – something which has earned him the description of being controversial.

Bulletin 9th Sept 2018

Bulletin 9th September 2018

Bulletin 2nd Sept 2018

2nd September 2018

Cecile Hunt

I like the thought-provoking homilies/ sermons and great care from our Jesuit Community; carrying the Cross thru the “Cross” on Good Friday (powerful); happy social events and rooftop or kitchen get-togethers—all are part of this special place. And I know miracles happen here.

Helen Campbell

St Canice’s is a place of prayer, a place that sustains my faith, a place where I meet a lot of wonderful people.