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Council for Australian Catholic Women
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  • Affinity Awards Encourage Dialogue
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    Chantelle Ogilvie received Affinity Youth Community Award for showing outstanding leadership in the area interfaith dialogue

    The 5th Affinity Intercultural Foundation Friendship and Dialogue Dinner was held on 7 September 2008. The evening was an occasion to celebrate the bonds of friendship that had been forged and strengthened over the past 12 months through interfaith dialogue.

    At the dinner, the recipients of the 2008 Australian Affinity Awards were announced.
    The winner of the Youth Community Award was Chantelle Ogilvie, Research & Project Officer with the Justice & Peace Office in the Archdiocese of Sydney. Chantelle was a participant in the inaugural Young Catholic Women’s Interfaith Fellowship and is known to many in the Diocese of Parramatta through her work with YCW and YCS.

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Welcome to the website of the Office for the Participation of Women. This site aims to promote dialogue, celebrate the good news stories and provide information about the activities and events occurring in local churches throughout Australia.  We would welcome your ideas, thoughts and reflections.
 
Letter to Women from the Catholic Bishops of Australia

Dear Catholic Women of Australia,
The year 2009 marked the 10th anniversary of the report into the participation of women in the Catholic Church in Australia, Woman and Man: One in Christ Jesus. This publication was an important moment in the recent history of the Catholic Church in Australia. It represented the real desire of the Bishops to hear your concerns, to learn from them and to respond to them. The Social Justice Statement of 2000 was the first step towards a response, outlining in a series of recommendations, practical measures towards ensuring that every person feels valued, included and respected in the life of the Church.

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International Women's Day Parish Kit 2010

Now available for download is this year's International Women's Day Parish Kit. This will assist in the celebration of International Women's Day 2010. All Catholic parishes have been sent hard copies of the kit also.

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Franciscan Missionaries celebrate 80 years in Kedron

Franciscan Missionaries Celebrate 80 Years in Kedron

nuns old and new.jpgEvoking times past, two nuns, dressed in traditional Franciscan brown habit and black veil turned heads up on Turner Road, Kedron during staff week this year.  They reminded the staff of Mt Alvernia College that 80 years has passed since the first arrival of the Missionary Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception in the local Kedron parish. 

 

 

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Around the Dioceses
  • From the Office

    Dear Friends

    Recently a number of subscribers have indicated they are experiencing difficulty in opening and accessing the newsletter. The OPW/CACW website will be upgraded over the next week which should alleviate some of these problems. There will not be an edition of Women Matter next week.

    This week Patricia Banister, chair, Council for Australian Catholic Women and I had the pleasure of meeting with the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council (ACSJC) to discuss the work of the OPW and CACW. The ACSJC is an advocacy body that exists to identify social injustices in Australia and around the world. In particular, they use publications to raise awareness of the gospel mandate for social justice.

    Included in our collaboration with the ACSJC, the OPW worked with John Ferguson, ACSJC National Executive Officer and David Brennan, ACSJC editing and publications officer on a social justice series focusing on Women in the Church. The OPW assisted with finding women who would be willing to contribute to the series while David and John have done the hard work of compiling the publication.

    This publication is now ready for printing and will be available through the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council in the near future. We will bring you details about availability as soon as we have them. An opportunity to work with other national councils provides recognition that ongoing dialogue about the participation of women in the Church is crucial and not isolated to the Council for Australian Catholic Women.

    http://www.socialjustice.catholic.org.au/

    Best wishes,

    Kim Davis

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