Time for action on youth
Fraynework takes out international web "Oscar"
From athelete to abbey
Sunday Nights with John Cleary and Christopher Willcock SJ
Precious manuscripts on show
Cambodian visitors full of hope
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One of the Catholic voices at (the) Australia 2020 Summit, Youth Off The Streets founder Salesian Father Chris Riley, believes that many of Australia's young people are in serious trouble and that the nation does nothing at its own peril.
That in any given week about one in 10 (or 168,000) Australians aged 12 to 17 years report binge drinking to harmful levels, and that pedophilia is now described by some experts as "Australia's biggest health crisis" were indicators of the extent of a looming disaster, he said.
Fr Riley also warned that Australia is "living in an unprecedented social experiment" and that "never before have so many young people lived so far from extended family or outside of traditional communities".
The Sisters of Mercy owned
Fraynework Multimedia web design company has won
Webby Awards - the "Oscars" of the World Wide Web - for two of its sites.
The company was named "official honoree" at the 12th annual Webby Awards, a Fraynework media release states. The award was made by the New York based International Academy of Arts and Science, for work that scored in the top 15 percent of work submitted for the awards. Nearly 10,000 entries were received from over 60 countries.
The awards were received for the new
Sisters of Mercy (Australia) site and
REsource for the Archdiocese of Melbourne Catholic Education Office.
It's a wonderful life and exciting being part of a group of women discerning together where we can make the most difference. Taking my final vows in April 2007 was the happiest moment of my life. The more I get to know this God, the more I desire to know this God.
So ends an article, From athlete to abbey - a nun's story, as written by Good Samaritan Linda Cassell for the ABC Life etc magazine, February edition.
One of Australia's best-known composers of contemporary church music Melbourne priest-composer Chris Willcock has worked with, been taught by, or been inspired by people as varied as Joseph Gelineau SJ, Michael Leunig, Peter Schulthorpe, Carl Vine, Anne Boyd, the choir of Trinity College Melbourne and the Tallis Scholars. This interview includes a preview of the opening hymn for the final mass of World Youth Day at Randwick Racecourse.
also
trafficking, with David Batstone anti-slavery activist;
Sojourners contributing editor; Jennifer Burn, Director of the Anti-Savery Project at the University of Technology, Sydney and Sr Pauline Coll SGS, Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans (also see
Looking to the future)
Emeritus Professor Margaret Manion AO, Professorial Fellow in Art History Melbourne University (and Loreto Sister), is the guest curator of the Medieval Imagination: Illuminated manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia and New Zealand exhibition at the State Library of Victoria from March 28 to June 15.
From the tiny Ta Hen village of north-east Cambodia - a war-torn country recovering from years of domination and genocide, where more than a third of its population live below the poverty line - has come a group of young, inspiring dancers.
The hope-filled troupe recently performed at Catholic schools in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne on a national tour, Dance together for peace, co-sponsored by Jesuit Mission and Ignatian World Youth Day program organiser MAGiS08.
Accompanying them was Cambodia's Battambang diocese Bishop Enrique (Kike) Figaredo, a Spanish Jesuit who formed the group in 2000 and has been working with them in the region since the late 1980s.
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