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...

Resource

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...

Resource

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...

Event

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...

Event

A PRAYER FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

A. Lord, make me an instrument of peace: Bless all women who daily strive to bring peace to their communities, their homes and their...

Prayers

WITNESSING TO THE EQUAL DIGNITY OF WOMEN AND MEN

The New Testament witnesses to the inclusion of women in all aspects of the community’s life and mission. The Gospels tell of Jesus’...

Theology

PHOEBE

This is the second in a series of articles about women in the scriptures. We do not know a great deal about Phoebe, but she is mentioned...

Scripture

LYDIA

This is the first in a series of articles about women in the scriptures. A short passage in the Acts of the Apostles introduces Lydia. In...

Scripture

JUNIA

This is the third article in our series on women in the scriptures where we meet Junia. Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives who were...

Scripture

TABITHA

Acts 9:36-42 tells the story of Tabitha, an important figure in the Christian community in Joppa. When she dies suddenly, Peter is...

Scripture

REFLECTION AFTERNOON 'WIDENING OUR GAZE'

15 October, 2021 ‘Widening our gaze’ is the title of the next reflection session organised by the Catholic Women’s Taskforce of the...

Event

A CHURCH THAT REFLECTS THE FACE OF GOD

23 April 2021 The lovely Hilltops region of the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn put on an autumn show for the Archdiocesan Women’s...

Parish visit

GOULBURN WOMEN VOICE CONCERNS TO TASKFORCE

26 FEB 2021 The Archdiocesan Catholic Women’s taskforce, established in 2019 following two years of consultation, held its first meeting...

Parish visit

MEETING OF MINDS AND HEARTS IN YASS

24 June 2021 The Archdiocesan Women’s Taskforce continued its consultations last Saturday 19 June at the Hartigan Centre in Yass....

Parish visit

MARY MAGDALENE, FAKE NEWS AND THE GOSPEL

Media Release, 23 August, 2021 Despite Covid-19, the Archdiocesan Catholic Women’s Taskforce is pressing ahead with an event to...

Media Release