CLAUDE MOSTOWIK MSC, EDMUND RICE AWARD 2013

A PLEA FOR A MORE CONSIDERED TREATMENT FOR VIETNAMESE ASYLUM SEEKERS CURRENTLY IN AUSTRALIAN DETENTION CENTRES. WHAT'S HAPPENING IN VIETNAM – WHY ARE THEY FLEEING?Many Catholics in Vietnam are being persecuted simply because they practise their faith. Most Vietnamese asylum seekers arriving in Australia now are Catholics, fleeing persecution in…

Nelson Mandela's story, if told as a novel, would not be deemed possible in real life. Worse, we don't tell such stories in many of our novels. A violent young rebel is imprisoned for decades but turns that imprisonment into the training he needs. He turns to negotiation, diplomacy, reconciliation.…

  Love Your Neighbor Rev. Peter Sawtell Eco-Justice Ministries A few weeks ago, a newspaper reported asked me a familiar, but always challenging, question. What Bible texts do I look to as a basis for Christian environmentalism? What passages are most important in seeing the need to care for all…