Frenchs Forest Catholic Parish Social Justice Group

10/09/2024

What letter writing can do: This message from Mark Zirnsak, Tax Justice Network: "There is good news that the Senate voted against the disallowance motion, so tax advisers will be required to report to the ATO if their clients have provided false and misleading information about their tax affairs and refuse to correct the record (normally a sign of tax evasion or tax avoidance). The disallowance was only just defeated. The Government, Greens, Lidia Thorpe and David Pocock voted against the disallowance, while all the other Senators, including Lambie, Tyrrell and Payman, voted in support of tax advisers ignoring their clients providing false and misleading information about their tax affairs. www.taxjustice.org.au



Thank you to those who wrote to the Senators.

Tax Justice Network Australia is a growing network of individuals and organisations calling for fairer tax systems. We are the Australian arm of the Tax Justice Network.

07/09/2024

Season of Creation begins at Sandhurst Diocese in Victoria. Looking forward to the Broken Bay Diocesan parishes getting involved at St Anthony in the Fields, Frenchs Forest next Saturday 14th Sept. https://www.caritas.org.au/soc-convocation/

04/12/2023

The Pope calls world leaders to account: "The future of humanity depends on what people choose now, Pope Francis said in his message to global leaders at the World Climate Action Summit of the U.N. Climate Change Conference." www.usccb.org/news/2023/pope-calls-world-leaders-end-divisions-fight-climate-change
"Are we working for a culture of life or a culture of death?" he asked in his message. "To all of you I make this heartfelt appeal: Let us choose life! Let us choose the future!"

Unable to be at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in person, Pope Francis still launched an urgent appeal to world leaders to work for a culture of life and to...

07/11/2023

Laudato Deum: Chapter 2. A Growing Technocratic Paradigm In this chapter Pope Francis challenges a one dimensional technocratic paradigm, saying "We have made impressive and awesome technological advances, and we have not realized that at the same time we have turned into highly dangerous beings, capable of threatening the lives of many beings and our own survival. We see this playing out in the Middle East right now. Listen to Chapter 2 at www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecojFbKZZds and read more at the FFCP Social Justice Group website https://socialjustice.ffcp.org.au/

02/11/2023

After the week of silence following the Referendum result, please listen to this message from Aunty Pat Anderson.

This is "Message from Aunty Pat Anderson AO, Co-Chair Uluru Dialogue" by Uluru Statement from the Heart on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and…

18/10/2023

Laudato Deum, (Praise God) is about the existential global crisis that climate change presents for all of life on Earth and is written to all people of good will. Each week we will highlight one point.

Laudato Deum: Praise God was released on October 4th, the Feast of St Francis of Assisi. Pope Francis begins: "Eight years have passed since I published the Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’, when I wanted to share with all of you, my brothers and sisters of our suffering planet, my heartfelt concerns about the care of our common home. Yet, with the passage of time, I have realized that our responses have not been adequate, while the world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point. #2. To listen to a reading of the whole Letter, watch .
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecojFbKZZds

20/09/2023

Register today for this World Day of Peace event in Parramatta Diocese tomorrow. See below!

The Interfaith Commission Diocese of Parramatta invite you to an interfaith gathering to mark the UN International Day of Peace on Thursday 21 September.

This is an opportunity to have real conversations and positive dialogue with people from faiths different to your own.

The gathering will be held from 6.30pm to 8.30pm at the Bishop Bede Heather Centre, Blacktown.

To register your attendance, please visit https://events.humanitix.com/walking-together-for-peace

14/07/2023

The Gospel calls us to social and ecological justice, "It is up to us to reward ethical behaviour in our politicians, political journalists and public servants and to protest against its absence."
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Navigating the murky waters between legality and morality, Robodebt and the prolonged hotel detention of asylum seekers are both marred by the same neglect of human dignity and ethical responsibility, and should spark urgent discussions about our societal attitudes towards the vulnerable and the dir...

12/07/2023

History is Calling!
Referendum on First Nations Recognition in the Constitution and Voice to Parliament.
Confused? Unsure? Wanting to do the right thing?
A Public Information Evening with Fr Frank Brennan and Prominent Aboriginal Leaders
Wed 19th July, 6.45 for 7pm
Our Lady of Good Counsel School Hall
9 Currie Rd, Forestville
Booking Essential: www.trybooking.com/CJLTC

02/04/2023

The Sisters of St Joseph and Bishop Vincent Long in the rain supporting refugees on Palm Sunday!

Hundreds of activists gathered at Palm Sunday rallies around the country yesterday to demand the Commonwealth give permanent visas for refugees stuck in limbo. Source: SBS/AAP.

24/02/2023

Pax Christi International has prepared this Statement on the Invasion of Ukraine: "One year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Pax Christi International expresses our deep
concern for countless victims of a war that has led to death, injury, displacement, trauma, and ecological harm. This war has generated almost 6 million internally displaced persons and 8 million refugees; killed more than 7,200 civilians including over 400 children and hundreds of thousands of soldiers; and caused generational trauma." Read the full statement here.

“Let us look at all those civilians whose killing was considered ‘collateral damage.’ Let us ask thevictims themselves. Let us think of the refugees and displaced… the mothers who lost their children, and theboys and girls maimed or deprived of their childhood. Let us hear the true stories.....

20/02/2023

"Science and faith ‘share core values and purpose capable of healing the world’"

A Melbourne Catholic school has taken part in the launch of a new Laudato Si’ resource from the Vatican, titled Our common home: A guide to caring for our living planet. Source: Mercy EcoCommunications.