Purity, Power, and Possibility: A Response to the Diaconate Decision
Beth Doherty, 9 December 2025 Beth had been preparing to share her story, in her words, for this blog, but was recently impacted by the Commission on the Diaconate of Women’s published report. Her experience is certainly not unique. Thank you, Beth, for sharing the following reflections. When the news landed on my social media…
Who is Really on the Margins?
Brother Rick Gaffney, 20 November 2025 Brother Rick Gaffney has experienced many different contexts and worlds. After joining the De la Salle Brothers as a young man, he taught in Melbourne for 6 years before being asked to go to South Africa for an experience before his perpetual profession. His decision to go was based…
Liturgy Through Italian Eyes
Sr Silvia Campo RSM, 6 November 2025 This week, Sr Silvia Campo shares her own story about a liturgy with the community of Italian background in Melbourne. She has supported them in many ways over the years. Thanks, Silvia! With great enthusiasm and some degree of insistence, Rachel – we are old school friends from…
Catechist to Catechist
Elizabeth Young rsm, 23 October 2025 I belong to an international religious order – the Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea. And we have been celebrating our newest saint: St Peter To Rot, who was canonised on the 19th of October, the first one of his country. Reading the news this week,…
Compassionate Service
Deacon Charles Hyson, 2/10/2025 Deacon Charles Hyson speaks about his ministries as a “blessing and a privilege”. Since he became a deacon last year, there is a new quality to what he was already doing. He feels he comes to people with more than just himself: “if there is no Jesus, there is no Charles”…
Celebration of the Feast of St Phoebe highlights the need for women deacons
Joanna Thyer, 18 September 2025 This article was published in the September 2025 edition of The Good Oil, the e-journal of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan, and is republished with permission. There is no cost to subscribe to The Good Oil: http://www.goodsams.org.au When St Paul sent Phoebe the deacon to Rome, he trusted her…
Webinar Video: Feast of St Phoebe 2025
What a rich Feast! Yesterday we celebrated a wonderful webinar that included presentations by Ellie Hidalgo (Discerning Deacons) and Dr Kerrie Hide (Contemplatio); a prayer meditation by Gail Gill; a snapshot of ACED and our past webinars by Deacon Adrian Gomez; the launch of our public document Potential for Women Deacons in the Australian Catholic…
Potential for Women Deacons in the Australian Catholic Churches
3 September 2025 On this Feast of St Phoebe 2025, Australian Catholics Exploring the Diaconate would like to share our new document: Potential for Women Deacons in the Australian Catholic Churches. Thank you very much to everyone involved in preparing this document, and for those who shared their stories. May St Phoebe and St Stephen…
Preparing for the Feast
28 August 2025 I love making plans for a shared meal. At our parish dinners, whenever we have a clergy visit, although we all plan individually, we always seem to have an abundance of everything. That is what I am expecting for this upcoming Feast of St Phoebe, the 3rd of September. We firstly put…
Deacon calls for Peace, Compassion and Unity in Gaza
Deacon Gary Stone, 21 August 2025 Deacon Gary Stone was the first Deacon that I interviewed for this blog. See his story here. With his great experience and prayerful insight, he is now making an important call for peace, compassion and courage to address the devastating situation in Gaza and to bring hope to all…
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