Category: Reflection

Reflections on the NATSICC Spirituality Retreat 2024

Kate Stilwell, CSSV Office Manager, reflects on four days spent at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council (NATSICC) Spirituality Retreat.

World Day of Migrants and Refugees -Sunday 29th September 2024

The World Day of Migrants and Refugees is observed each year as a time to learn about, listen to, and pray for and with those who have been forced to flee their homeland.

Social Justice Sunday – 25 August 2024 ‘Truth and Peace’

In their 2024-25 Social Justice Statement, 'Truth and Peace: A Gospel Word in a Violent World', the bishops call for peace in the midst of a rise in violence, armed conflict and suffering around the world.

World Day of Social Justice, 20 February 2021

World Social Justice Day offers an opportunity for broader reflection. As with other events, we normally think locally about social justice. The issues on which we focus and the terms in which we discuss them are those that concern Australia: inequality, the treatment of people who seek protection, the adequacy of support for those who are unemployed, people who are elderly, suffer from mental illness, and discrimination against Indigenous Australians, for example.

Marking January 26

For most Indigenous Australians with a sense of their own history Australia Day is an occasion for grief. For many other Australians it is an uncomfortable day, one for rumination, for pondering the creation and the destruction of cultures. Andy Hamilton SJ helps up to reflect on this important time in history.