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1997
- Bishops Urge Prayers for Parliamentarians - 28 Nov 1997
As Parliament wrestles with the complexities of competing claims for land title and usage we pray for a resolution that respects justice and promotes true reconciliation. - No More Public Prayer in the Senate? - 10 Nov 1997
There is a move to do away with public prayer in the Parliament. Greens Senator Bob Brown has announced that he will seek to have Senate Standing Order 50 changed. This Standing Order requires the President of the Senate to open each day's business with a public prayer to God. - Turn off your TV's & Telephones and sit down for a family meal on Sunday 5 October! - 29 Sep 1997
The Bishops' Committee for the Family and for Life asks all Australian families to take time out to rediscover the joy of the family meal on Sunday 5 October 1997. - Catholic Education on the Internet - 3 Sep 1997
Information on Catholic education in Australia will be electronically accessible from today with the launch of the National Catholic Education Commission Home Page. - National Day for Migrants and Refugees - 29 Aug 1997
On the National Day for Migrants and Refugees, to be celebrated in most Catholic parishes around Australia this weekend, parishioners are encouraged to play an active role in making life for migrants and refugees in Australia a better one. - The Coming of the Third Millennium - 11 Jul 1997
The Catholic Bishops of Australia have released a Letter to all Australians to mark the coming of the Great Jubilee in the Year 2000. - St Paul's National Seminary to close its doors at the end of 1998. - 4 Jul 1997
The Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference (ACBC) and the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC) have decided to close St Paul's, situated in Kensington, Sydney, as the National Seminary for late vocations at the end of 1998. - The Australian Catholic University in the New Millennium - 25 May 1997
Vice-Chancellor of the Australian Catholic University (ACU), Professor Peter W. Sheehan, met today with members of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference in Sydney. He discussed with them his vision of Australian Catholic University to take it into the new millennium to the year 2020. - Federal Government shows little compassion for asylum seekers - 16 Apr 1997
Proposed changes to the refugee decision making and review processes will see the introduction of impractical, unrealistic requirements imposed on many people seeking asylum in our country. - Eastern Catholics in Australia booklet now available - 12 Apr 1997
Hot off the press this week is the publication, "Eastern Catholics in Australia" providing an insight into the Eastern Rite of the Catholic Church. - Catholic Church to appear at Euthanasia Hearings in Canberra today. - 14 Feb 1997
Archbishop Barry Hickey, representing the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference, will appear before the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee at its hearing into the Euthanasia Laws Bill 1996. - Senators still wrestling with the issue of Euthanasia. - 14 Feb 1997
The Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference (ACBC) panel believes it was afforded the opportunity to present and expand on the key arguments underpinning the Church’s opposition to Euthanasia at its session before the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee Hearing into the Euthanasia Laws Bill 1996 today. - Catholic Church reiterates her support of housing as a basic human right. - 5 Feb 1997
Bishop David Cremin, on behalf of Cardinal Clancy, will join the homeless community in Woolloomooloo tomorrow to launch the 1997 Papal Lenten Message which bears the theme of "Homelessness". - Christians and Muslims. Believers in God, Faithful to Humanity. - 31 Jan 1997
The President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, Cardinal Francis Arinze, presents his the annual message to Muslims on the occasion of ‘Id al-Fitr’ (the Feast of the Breaking of the Fast) at the end of Ramadan (1417/1997). |
