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Gospel Values in the Trump era. Letter from Claude Mostowik MSC

Dear Right Rev. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde,

I write to you on behalf of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Justice and Peace Centre and Pax Christi Australia to thank you for the very dignified prophetic voice to speak truth to power during the National Cathedral's Service of Prayer for the Nation in Washington on Tuesday January 21.

Your pleas to President Trump for mercy, kindness, and justice on behalf LGBTIQ+ people, people who are immigrants and many other marginalised people in your country was a powerful expression of the commandment to love one another - our neighbours - as we love ourselves.

As your country honoured the legacy of Dr Martin Luther King Jr on the same day it was an urgent reminder to the people of the United States and others beyond your country that silence in the face of violence and all forms of injustice is a failure to be people of hope - a hope that can only be created by action. When Dr King asserted that we need a heart full of grace in order serve, that grace was displayed in your pleadings at the Cathedral. Such grace is exceedingly rare in the public sphere.

As we thank you and express our appreciation, we are also mindful that many church and religious leaders have been silent as a genocide has unfolded, and have been silent against marginalised people in many places.

We hope that those who do raise their voices will continue to do so with courage.

Once again, a heartfelt appreciation and thanks.

Claude Mostowik msc

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Fr. Claude Mostowik msc

Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Justice and Peace Centre

Pax Christi Australia

PO Box 146

Erskineville, NSW 2043

Mob: 0411450953

Ph: +61 2 8762 4224

I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which I live and work, and pay my respects to Elders past and present.

Some Province Diary Photos

Stephen Hackett with Daramalan Principal, Rachel Francis-Davies

Our students venturing into media studies

Claude Mostowik, Justice issues

Vietnam, 8^th December, Hoang and group

And Bob Irwin at home in Vietnam but at present home in Sydney

Acknowledging Claude Mostowik MSC, 75

Claude Mostowik made his profession as a Missionary of the Sacred Heart on December 4^th 1971, studied at Sacred Heart Monastery, Canberra, then at Croydon, with a degree in Theology from the Yarra Theological Union. He was ordained on May 25th 1976.

Golden Jubilee of Profession, with Roger Purcell, MSC Mission Office

After working in the Northern Territory, he studied, 1982-1986 at Luigi Rulla SJ Institute for Psychology at the Gregorian University in Rome. On his return, he worked in MSC Formation and continued in his work in psychology.

For many years, he has been MSC Director Justice and Peace. He has been strongly involved in justice organisations, President, Australia, Pax Christi, committed to Acceptance, working with the Edmund Ignatius Rice Centre.

At the Provincial Chapter, April 2023

He hosts a Facebook page, regular posts on current issues of justice, war and peace. He has prepared for many years extensive notes and commentary for the Sunday liturges throughout the year.

Claude has the courage of his religious and justice convictions, statements, protests, demonstrations. We add this story from 2015, an arrest in solidarity with statements by Catholic and other Christian leaders.

Book launch of street poet, David Marsh

Five Catholic bishops, including a bishop of Australia’s largest archdiocese, put their names to a public newspaper advertisement at the weekend calling on the Federal Government to give children in immigration detention “the gift of freedom” this Christmas.

Bishop Terry Brady, auxiliary bishop of Sydney, joined the Bishop of Wollongong, Bishop Peter Ingham, the Bishop of Port Pirie, Bishop Greg O’Kelly SJ, the Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, Bishop Bill Wright, and the Archbishop of Melbourne, Archbishop Denis Heart, in signing the advertisement, sponsored by Catholic Religious Australia (CRA).

Declaring it to be “a critical moment in the history of this nation”, the advertisement called on all MPs to “do the right thing” and release “children and their families” from immigration detention.

Other signatories included the Anglican Primate, Archbishop Philip Freier, and the President of the Uniting Church, Stuart McMillan, as well as the congregational leaders of some of Australia’s most prominent religious orders.

CRA Justice Network co-ordinator Fr Claude Mostowik MSC and Hillsong attendee Kylie Beach were among a group of eight Christians, including three ordained ministers, who began a peaceful sit-in at Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s electoral office in Edgecliff on Monday.

The protest was ended five hours later when six of the protesters, including all three ministers, were arrested and removed from the premises.

Fr Claude Mostowik MSC and Hillsong attendee Kylie Beach were among eight Christians, including three ordained ministers, arrested after a peaceful sit-in at Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s electoral office in Edgecliff on Monday. Photo: Facebook