Tag: lockdowns
Lockdowns sparked a mental health crisis
Reading Time: 4 minutesJuliette Kirkwood began work as a Community Care Worker in CatholicCare’s parish program a year and a half ago, but grew up in South-Western Sydney like many Christians of Middle Eastern heritage. She saw the area transform and evolve from a largely Anglo-Saxon population to the diverse region it is today, beginning […]
Don’t forget Fairfield
Reading Time: 6 minutes“At 9am the helicopters started hovering. They’d hover for the next hour, hour and a half, spotting people. “It was the very first time I thought, ‘Here I am celebrating Mass and I’m fearing being arrested.’ This would happen in Communist China, not in a country where we’re free.” As NSW reopens […]
Engaging seekers and reaching the unchurched in a time of COVID-19
What if the parish didn’t disband the online streaming service as soon as doors opened but continued to invest in it?
Fr John Flader: life with the coronavirus
If we cannot attend Mass or receive Communion, that too is a sacrifice we can offer to God, in union with the many people around the world who over the centuries and at the present time, cannot attend Mass.