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1 week ago | 
melbournecatholic.org | Justin Mclellan
Reflecting on Jesus’ question to the apostle Peter in St Matthew’s Gospel—‘Who do people say the Son of Man is?’—Pope Leo said one might find two possible responses: the world’s, which considers Jesus ‘a completely insignificant person’ who becomes ‘irksome because of his demands for honesty and his stern moral requirements’, and that of ordinary people, who see him as an ‘upright man, one who has courage, who speaks well and says the right things’.
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3 weeks ago | 
melbournecatholic.org
Through our various ministries and agencies, we exist to serve the people of God, enabling the Gospel of Jesus Christ to come alive in our local community.
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1 month ago | 
melbournecatholic.org | Justin Mclellan
In his written message to accompany the Angelus, published by the Vatican after the Mass, Pope Francis reflected on his personal experience of illness. ‘During my hospitalisation, even now in my convalescence I feel the “finger of God” and experience his caring touch,’ he wrote.
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1 month ago | 
melbournecatholic.org | Carol Glatz
In the message, Pope Francis said, ‘It’s true, technology is the fruit of the intelligence God gave us. But we need to use it well. It can’t benefit only a few while excluding others.’‘We should use technology to unite, not to divide. To help the poor. To improve the lives of the sick and people with different abilities,’ he said.
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1 month ago | 
melbournecatholic.org | Justin Mclellan
Pope Francis has cleared the way for the canonisations of three blesseds: a lay catechist from Papua New Guinea killed during World War II, a Venezuelan religious sister who dedicated her life to education and the poor, and an Armenian Catholic archbishop martyred during the Armenian genocide. The Vatican announced on 31 March that the pope had authorised the decrees on 28 March.
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2 months ago | 
melbournecatholic.org | Kerri Lee
The approaching Jubilee of the World of Volunteers (8–9 March) has turned my mind to the most powerful experience of my life—okay, second most powerful after motherhood. Exactly one year ago, I was spending every morning, Monday to Saturday, standing in front of huge classes of young adults in Timor-Leste trying to teach them English. I had volunteered through the Cagliero Project, an agency affiliated with the Salesians of Don Bosco in Australia.
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2 months ago | 
melbournecatholic.org | Justin Mclellan
Pope Francis also emphasised the importance of journeying together, saying Christians are called to walk ‘side by side, without shoving or stepping on others, without envy or hypocrisy, without letting anyone be left behind or excluded’. Christians, he said, should reflect on whether they are open to others or focused only on their own needs. Christ lives and reigns in glory.
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2 months ago | 
melbournecatholic.org | Cindy Wooden
The Vatican governor’s office oversees departments as diverse as the Vatican Museums, post office and police force, and has the largest number of employees of any Vatican office. In 2021, when Sr Petrini was named secretary-general of the office, she became the highest-ranking woman at the Vatican. The position of secretary-general had previously been held by a priest, who was named a bishop shortly after becoming secretary-general.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
melbournecatholic.org | Cindy Wooden
Education also promotes integration and prepares them to contribute to society, ‘either in their new country or in their country of origin, should they decide to return,’ the Pope said. Pope Francis reminded viewers that ‘whoever welcomes the foreigner welcomes Jesus Christ.’The Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network said that 128 million boys and 122 million girls around the world are not attending school.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
melbournecatholic.org | Mykola Bychok
Becoming a cardinal is an insistent call to put Jesus at the centre of one’s life, to love the poor as he did and to strengthen the bonds of unity within the Catholic Church, Pope Francis said as he created 21 new cardinals from 17 nations. Among them was Cardinal Mykola Bychok of the Ukrainian Eparchy of Sts Peter and Paul in Melbourne, who at 44 becomes the youngest serving cardinal and Australia’s highest ranking Catholic.