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Young Christian Workers ‘immerse’ themselves in Indonesia
Two Australian Young Christian Workers leaders travelled to Indonesia to take part in YCW’s Continental Cultural Immersion program. Source: YCW Australia.
Lay leaders re-affirm primacy of baptismal vocation
Lay leaders from thirty countries working with international lay apostolate movements have met in Rome to study the theme “Lay Mission and Vocation”. Source: Australian Cardijin Institute.
Areté Centre calls for laity with a heart for mission
Applications are open for the Areté Centre 2025 Foundations of Missionary Leadership program, which is designed to form and equip laypeople for the mission of the Church, contribute to the renewal of parishes, and evangelise others.
Consultor to the Vatican to visit Australia
Myriam Wijlens, a Dutch theologian, ecumenist and consultor to several Vatican bodies, will visit Australia in August to deliver public lectures on the topic “The prophetic voice of the laity in the renewal of the Catholic Church”. Source: Catholic Outlook.
Australian Catholic University training Nigerian lay ministers
The Australian Catholic University’s Centre for Liturgy is helping to train lay liturgical ministers of the Word in Nigeria. Source: UCA News.
National Civic Council’s new generation takes the reins
For decades, the National Civic Council, led by its charismatic founder BA (Bob) Santamaria, was synonymous with lay Catholic action throughout Australia. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
Don’t reduce women’s role in Church to question of ministry: Pope
The importance of women in the Church cannot be “reduced” to the question of ministry, Pope Francis told members of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments yesterday. Source: CNS.
Priest shortage forces Irish diocese to rely on laity to preside over funerals
More than 40 laymen and laywomen in the Clogher Diocese in the north of Ireland will soon begin presiding over funeral liturgies amid a shortage of priests. Source: CNA.
Tasmania blazes trail with institution of catechists
Nineteen catechists from parishes around Tasmania were formally instituted at St Mary’s Cathedral in Hobart recently, one of the first groups to be instituted in Australia. Source: Archdiocese of Hobart.