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Communication
Check out these short articles which report on events, resources, parish visits, women in Scripture and more.


This Is Happiness - Book Review
This Is Happiness - by Niall Williams Published in 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing. The book is set in a small village, Faha, in the west...


The Book of Longings/ Sue Monk Kidd. Viking, 2020
What is the book about? It is clearly fictionalised story of a female character , Ana, who becomes the wife of Jesus, and shows the...


Act Love Walk: Praying in the Josephite Spirit
North Sydney, NSW: Trustees of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, 2014 183 pages: colour illustrations, colour portraits; 25...


The Black Dress
By Pamela Freeman, first published in 2005. The book is about Mary MacKillop and is set in the final three weeks of her life. While some...


Small Things Like These
by Claire Keegan first published in 2021 by Faber & Faber Ltd This book is a short novel set in 1985 in an Irish town. It is about how an...


Community, challenge, compassion and a coolamon
The Annual Catholic Women’s Dinner on 27 October brought together nearly 200 women and men at the Canberra Southern Cross Club to...


REFLECTIONS ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS BILL
IWD Catholic Archdiocese event, Canberra Seniors Centre Turner 9 March 2023 Speech by Dr Helen Watchirs OAM, ACT President & HR...


WHAT DO WOMEN WANT FROM THE CHURCH?
Catholic women of the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn are invited to a conversation about what the decrees of the Plenary Council...


CATHOLIC WOMEN GATHER TO CELEBRATE
The Archdiocesan Women’s Taskforce hosted an evening to celebrate Catholic women last Thursday at the Southern Cross Club in Woden. Over...
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