What’s really going on underneath the surface?
In essence, we only know that which comprises five percent of our universe.
Catholic women deacons ‒ why not?
I wonder if, like me, you were curious and hopeful when you heard the news that Pope Francis ‒ responding to a question posed by members of the International Union of Superiors General (IUSG) in May 2016 – had established a commission to study the question of ordaining women deacons in the Roman Catholic Church.
Local author tells tales tall but true!
When James Tobias (Toby) Ryan, 17, and his cousin, George Rope, found themselves in a drunken fight with police in Penrith in 1835, they decided that escape was the best course of action. Accordingly, they walked to Parramatta, thence to Sydney where they boarded the steamer, “William the Fourth”, and sailed north to Newcastle Harbour.
Reimagining the future
There’s a butter churn in the dining room of Rita Gee’s home, “Dalara”, at Jerry’s Plains in the Upper Hunter. Rita recalls that she used it as a girl, growing up on a succession of Hunter Valley dairies run by her parents.
New ambulance the most vital delivery yet for Uganda maternity hospital
It wasn't quite the delivery they are used to, but for Sister Mary Goretti and her small staff at St Luke Health Centre in Bujuni, it is one that will save hundreds of lives. The maternal health centre, located three hours from Kampala, can finally celebrate the arrival of its long-awaited ambulance, which supporters in the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle helped to fund during last year's Catholic Mission Church and Schools Appeal.
Sea of Possibilities
‘Have you been here before?’ they all seem to ask, conscious that their corner of the world has not been high on the tourist bucket list. And I am revelling in being able to say ‘Yes, but not for 50 years.’ Papua New Guinea was even more remote from the jetset in 1968, but the schoolboy that I was then had indeed spent a fortnight or more on a tour with his father of the incipient banking industry of the soon-to-be nation. Many things I remember vividly.
