NAIDOC Week 2026: ‘50 Years Deadly’
This year marks 50 years of NAIDOC Week and yet there is no public holiday to celebrate our Indigenous peoples, the longest living culture on this planet, writes Catherine McCahill.
Human dignity has no passport
During Refugee Week, we celebrate the one million people on humanitarian visas whose stories of resilience, hope, perseverance and kindness have become part of our Australian story, writes Catherine McCahill.
Laudato Si’ Week 2026: from hope to action
During Laudato Si’ Week, I want to add my voice to all those who campaign for the earth, our common home, including some of our Pacific neighbours, writes Catherine McCahill.
How will I bear witness to hope, to resurrection?
As we witness the great tragedy of human making that is unfolding, it seems humanity has forgotten how to be neighbour, how to live in right relationship with each other.
We must empower women to find and have their voices heard
Each year we celebrate International Women’s Day, but if it is to mean anything, we must empower women to find and have their voices heard, writes Congregational Leader Catherine McCahill.
Doing good is not for the faint-hearted as we ‘seek peace and pursue it’
“Australia will never be the same again.” I have reflected on this statement many times since Sunday 14 December when 15 innocent people were killed, writes Sister Catherine McCahill SGS.
The celebration of Christmas reminds us that God’s promises are always kept
As I prepare for the celebration of Christmas, I have come to realise that the most important gift I can give my neighbour is the peace of reconciliation and kindness.
Action at COP30 is critical to addressing the threat of climate change
It is ten years since world leaders signed the COP21 Paris Agreement, pledging to reduce the use of fossil fuels so that global warming might be maintained at 1.5 degrees.
International Benedictine gathering an opportunity to share our experience
At a recent conference in Spain, my commitment to ‘being neighbour’ expanded as I listened to the reports from Benedictine women from across the world, writes Sister Catherine McCahill SGS.
Season of Creation a time to act for and behalf of 'our common home'
As I contemplate the mighty tree that lives at the back of the Good Samaritan Convent, I find myself more aware of ‘our common home’, writes Sister Catherine McCahill SGS.
May choosing kindness over contempt lead to forgiveness and love
Since visiting the Japanese War Cemetery at Cowra, which contains the graves of Japanese POWs, I have pondered deeply on the human capacity for reconciliation, writes Sister Catherine McCahill SGS.
‘Open your hand to the poor and needy neighbour in your land’
As the conflict in the Holy Land continues unabated, what is our responsibility and capacity to be neighbour, to get involved, to speak up, to give alms, asks Catherine McCahill.