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SUMMARY:St Isidore\, patron saint of the internet
DESCRIPTION:In 1997 Pope John Paul II declared Isidore of Seville the patron saint of the internet.  Isidore was a scholar with encyclopedic knowledge. In his writings he sought to collect\, systematize and synthesize all existing knowledge. \n\n\n\nSpeaking at a General Audience on 18 June 2008\, Pope Benedict XVI\, highlighted how Isidore combined contemplation and action.  He went on to quote Isidore: \n\n\n\nTherefore let the servant of God\, imitating Christ\, dedicate himself to contemplation without denying himself active life. Behaving otherwise would not be right. Indeed\, just as we must love God in contemplation\, so we must love our neighbour with action. It is therefore impossible to live without the presence of both the one and the other form of life\, nor can we live without experiencing both the one and the other. http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/audiences/2008/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20080618.html \n\n\n\nPrayer Seeking the Intercession of St Isidore\n\n\n\nAlmighty and eternal Godwho has created us in thine imageand bade us to seek after all that is good\, true and beautiful\,especially in the divine person of Thy only-begotten Son\,Our Lord Jesus Christ\,grant we beseech Thee that through the intercession of St Isidore\, bishop and doctor\,during our journeys through the internetwe will direct our hand and eyesonly to that which is pleasing to Theeand treat with charity and patience all those soulswhom we encounter.Father\, we ask you this\, through Christ Our Lord.Amen
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/st-isidore-patron-saint-of-the-internet-2021-04-04/
CATEGORIES:Liturgy & Church
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SUMMARY:International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action
DESCRIPTION:The United Nations established this day in 2005 through this resolution.  \n\n\n\nThe annual message for the day\, together with other resources\, are available here.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/international-day-for-mine-awareness-and-assistance-in-mine-action-2021-04-04/
CATEGORIES:UN International
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SUMMARY:1997: Bringing Them Home Report published
DESCRIPTION:The report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families was published on this day in 1997. Read the Bringing Them Home Report here and access information and teaching resources on the Stolen Generations here.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1997-bringing-them-home-report-published-2021-04-05/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210405T235959
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SUMMARY:World Youth Day
DESCRIPTION:World Youth Day is celebrated every year in local churches and every two or three years at the international level. The theme for 2020 is  “Young man\, I tell you\, arise!” (Lk 7\,14). Lisbon\, Portugal will host the next international gathering for World Youth Day in 2022.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/world-youth-day-2021-04-05/
CATEGORIES:Liturgy & Church
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210406T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210406T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T085624
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200117T032814Z
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SUMMARY:International Day of Sport for Development and Peace
DESCRIPTION:Find out more about why the United Nations declared this day here. \n\n\n\nA Crown for Australia: Striving for the Best in Our Sporting Nation \n\n\n\nToday is a great day to revisit the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Social Justice Statement 2014–2015. It challenges us to look at the place of sport in our lives. Where are its strengths and how can we ensure that sport can thrive and in return can nourish our society? Equally\, what are the influences that are undermining and distorting sport’s ideals? Most importantly\, how can we work to realise sport’s potential to unite communities\, overcome differences and be a force for social justice and reconciliation?  \n\n\n\nPrayer for Good Sports\n\n\n\nGod of all sports (and none);from our small minds\,how amused you must bewhen our prayers about sportare about our own success or our team's.Whose side are you on?How do you choosewhen supporters from both sidesimplore your divine intervention?Remind us that in prayerour hearts are opened to youand our minds lifted beyond ourselves.Just as prayer changes us\,not you\, O God\,so sport too\, can lift us beyond ourselves.So we pray:We give thanks for the gift of our bodies\,for the ability to run\, walk\, jump\,swim\, catch and throw.We pray for patience and discipline\,that we may learn the joy of mastering new skills:achieving success\, and cheerfully bearing failurein the company of others.We pray that our relationships be enrichedthrough the friendships we form.May we learn to include others across bordersof language\, colour\, gender and religion.We pray that we care for others.May we especially look out for thosewho are differently abled\,and those often left on the boundaries.Through our vigilancemay we always play fair\,and ensure that no one is abused or exploited.We ask this through Jesus your son. Amen.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/international-day-of-sport-for-development-and-peace-2021-04-06/
CATEGORIES:UN International
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DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210407T235959
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SUMMARY:International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda
DESCRIPTION:Ubumuntu (kindness\, humanity\, greatness of heart)\, from the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Kigali\, Rwanda              Artist: Unknown.\n\n\n\nFor Reflection\n\n\n\nThe Rwandan Genocide in 1994 saw over 800\,000 Rwandans\, mainly from the Tutsi minority\, massacred by the Hutu ethnic majority in three months. Over two million Hutu’s later fled the country\, fearing revenge attacks. Fr Marcel Uwineza SJ\, a survivor of the genocide\, calls these horrific events in his home country an “intimate genocide……It was not an invasion by an outside country\, but an intensive\, systematic killing of Rwandans by Rwandans.” \n\n\n\nDehumanisation of people because of their ethnicity\, and imbalances of power that illegitimately privilege one group of people over another\, have contributed to atrocities throughout history. As Christians\, we are called to break this cycle of violence. We honour the dignity of every human person\, no matter their ethnicity\, religion\, or difference to us. Jesus offers clear teaching in Matthew 22: 34-40 on how to move forward in peace: \n\n\n\n“’You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart\,\nand with all your soul\, and with all your mind.’\nThis is the greatest and first commandment. \nAnd a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ \nOn these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”\n\n\n\nMarcel Uwineza SJ’s journey of healing and forgiveness: “To remember is to act so that those criminal activities never happen again. So\, to remember is to do justice.” \n\n\n\nPrayer\n\n\n\nPope Francis’ Prayer for Peace \n\n\n\nMusic\n\n\n\nWill You Be My Protector? by The Good Ones \n\n\n\nWill You Be My Protector? by The Good Ones
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/international-day-of-reflection-on-the-genocide-in-rwanda-2021-04-07/
CATEGORIES:UN International
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SUMMARY:World Health Day
DESCRIPTION:Christ the Healer Icon by Christine Hales https://americanassociationoficonographers.com/2017/10/30/feed-my-sheep/christ-the-healer-icon-details-064/\n\n\n\nFor Reflection\n\n\n\n“I came that they may have life\, and have it abundantly.” (John 10:10) \n\n\n\nChrist came to bring life in body\, mind\, and spirit to all people in their daily lives. Since 1950\, every April 7 the World Health Organisation highlights a specific health area of concern. In 2021\, the focus of the WHO is on building a fairer\, healthier world: “…we are calling on leaders to ensure that everyone has living and working conditions that are conducive to good health.“ \n\n\n\nChrist challenges us to offer abundant life through ensuring people can access and experience secure employment\, housing\, education\, gender equality\, a safe environment\, clean water and air\, nourishing food\, and quality health services. As Christians\, we uphold and actively support the conditions that allow all in our human family to flourish. \n\n\n\nPrayer for A Fairer\, Healthier World\n\n\n\n(adapted from the 2021 Social Justice Statement Prayer)      \n\n\n\nJesus\, you invite us all into the fullness of life.May we support one another to flourish in body\, mind and spirit.Strengthen our commitment to ensure that nobodyfalls through gaps in our systems of care. \n\n\n\nHelp us to recognise youin those who suffer ill-health today.Show us how to eliminate inequality in our health systems\, and in our world. \n\n\n\nYou drew near to thosewho were suffering in body or mind.May we too feel your nearnesswhen we struggle with health challenges.May we be one as members of Your Body. \n\n\n\nYou invite us to share in your ministryof love and true compassion.May we be empowered by your Spiritto reach out to all people in need.May we build communities of welcome and inclusion.  Amen. \n\n\n\nMusic\n\n\n\nBy Our Love by Tom Kendzia                              \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n                            
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/world-health-day-2021-04-07/
CATEGORIES:UN International
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210411T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210411T235959
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SUMMARY:1963: Pacem in Terris published by Pope John XXIII
DESCRIPTION:The encyclical Pacem in Terris is known in English as Peace on Earth.  It was published in 1963 in the wake of the Cuban missile crisis. You can read an introduction to the encyclical and find a link to the full text here. \n\n\n\nPacem in Terris focuses on issues of peace in a nuclear age. It revisits the application of the just war theory criteria in the light of the development of these new weapons of mass destruction. It examines the relationships among human beings\, relationships between citizens and public authorities\, relationships between states\, and finally\, relationships among the people and states in the international community. It sets out rights and duties in all of these areas. While Pope Pius XII was so disappointed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that he passed it over in silence\, John XXIII welcomed and affirmed a broad range of human rights in this encyclical. It was seen as a Catholic charter of human rights. Sandie Cornish\, Introduction to Pacem in Terris.\n\n\n\nPrayer\n\n\n\nJesus\, Prince of Peace\,\nbanish from our souls\nwhatever might endanger peace.\n\nTransform us into witnesses\nof truth\, justice and love.\n\nEnlighten the minds of rulers\nthat they may care for their peoples\nand guarantee them the gift of peace.\n\nInflame our desires\nto break through the barriers that divide us\,\nto strengthen the bonds of mutual love\,\nto learn to understand one another\,\nto pardon those who have done us wrong.\n\nJesus\, Prince of Peace\,\nthrough your power and inspiration\,\nmay all peoples welcome each other to their hearts\nas sisters and brothers.\nAnd may the peace they long for\never flower and ever reign among them.\n\nAMEN\n\nAn Advent Prayer for Peace\, by Sandie Cornish\, adapted from Pacem in Terris n 171
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1963-pacem-in-terris-published-by-pope-john-xxiii-2021-04-11/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Liturgy & Church
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210415T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210415T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T085624
CREATED:20200121T053634Z
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SUMMARY:1991: Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Royal Commission Final Report signed
DESCRIPTION:13th Station: Jesus’ Body is Taken Down from the Cross by Dr Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann AO\n\n\n\nFor Reflection\n\n\n\n“… and you will know the truth\, and the truth will make you free.” John 8: 32\n\n\n\nThe 1991 Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Royal Commission Final Report was a painful and key step in the process of radical truth telling in regard to the treatment of Aboriginal people in Australia\, especially when in police custody. There were over 300 recommendation from this report\, and many are still to be implemented. 434 Indigenous people have died in custody since 1991. There is still much listening and work to do to achieve real justice for all Australians. \n\n\n\nFrom the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart: \n\n\n\n“Proportionally\, we are the most incarcerated people on the planet. We are not an innately criminal people. Our children are aliened from their families at unprecedented rates. This cannot be because we have no love for them. And our youth languish in detention in obscene numbers. They should be our hope for the future. These dimensions of our crisis tell plainly the structural nature of our problem. This is the torment of our powerlessness.  We seek constitutional reforms to empower our people and take a rightful place in our own country. When we have power over our destiny our children will flourish. They will walk in two worlds and their culture will be a gift to their country.”  From the Uluru Statement from the Heart\, 2017\n\n\n\nPrayer\n\n\n\nReconciliation Prayer \n\n\n\nHoly Father\, God of Love\,\nYou are the Creator of all things.\nWe acknowledge the pain and shame of our history\nand the sufferings of Our peoples\,\nand we ask your forgiveness.\nWe thank you for the survival of Indigenous cultures.\n\nOur hope is in you because you gave your Son Jesus\nto reconcile the world to you.\nWe pray for your strength and grace to forgive\, accept and love one another\,\nas you love us and forgive and accept us in the sacrifice of your Son.\n\nGive us the courage to accept the realities of our history\nso that we may build a better future for our Nation.\n\nTeach us to respect all cultures.\nTeach us to care for our land and waters.\nHelp us to share justly the resources of this land.\nHelp us to bring about spiritual and social change to improve the quality of life for all groups in our communities\, especially the disadvantaged.\nHelp young people to find true dignity and self-esteem by your Spirit.\n\nMay your power and love be the foundations on which we build our families\,\nour communities and our Nation\, through Jesus Christ our Lord.\n\nAmen.\n\n\n\nFrom the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council\, Wontulp Bi-Buya Indigenous Theology Working Group 13 March 1997 Brisbane\, Qld. \n\n\n\nMusic\n\n\n\nFirst Nation (2020) by Midnight Oil from The Makarrata Project                      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n                    
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1991-aboriginal-deaths-in-custody-royal-commission-final-report-signed-2021-04-15/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210422T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210422T235959
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SUMMARY:International Mother Earth Day
DESCRIPTION:Tree of Life – Mieke Boynton\n\n\n\n\n\n Mother Earth is a common expression for the planet earth in a number of countries and regions\, which reflects the interdependence that exists among human beings\, other living species and the planet we all inhabit.   Resolution establishing Mother Earth Day adopted by the General Assembly on 22 April 2009 \n\n\n\nThe United Nations designated this day in 2009. It was already celebrated in a number of different countries prior to this. You can find a range of related resources for the celebration of this day here. \n\n\n\nArtwork:\n\n\n\nTree of Life – Mieke Boynton \n\n\n\nMusic:\n\n\n\nTend the Ground – Curtis Stephan \n\n\n\n\n\nTend the Ground – Curtis Stephan
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/international-mother-earth-day-2021-04-22/
CATEGORIES:UN International
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210423T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210423T235959
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SUMMARY:World Book and Copyright Day
DESCRIPTION:Did you know that this date was chosen by the United Nations because it was on this date in 1616 that Miguel de Cervantes\, William Shakespeare and Inc Garcilaso de la Vega died?  \n\n\n\nRead the UNESCO resolution proclaiming the day here. \n\n\n\nAccess resources for celebrating the day here.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/world-book-and-copyright-day-2021-04-23/
CATEGORIES:UN International
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210425T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210425T235959
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CREATED:20200121T234003Z
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SUMMARY:1945: First united Nations Conference opens
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URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1945-first-united-nations-conference-opens-2021-04-25/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,UN International
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210426T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210426T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T085624
CREATED:20200121T234204Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200121T234207Z
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SUMMARY:1986: Nuclear accident in Chernobyl\, Ukraine
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URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1986-nuclear-accident-in-chernobyl-ukraine-2021-04-26/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,UN International
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210428T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210428T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T085624
CREATED:20200121T234305Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T234240Z
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SUMMARY:World Day for Health and Safety at Work
DESCRIPTION:The International Labour Organisation (ILO) began to celebrate this day in 2003 however the trade union movement internationally has marked this day as the  International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured Workers  since 1996.  This celebration is an integral part of the Global Strategy on Occupational Safety and Health of the ILO. \n\n\n\n As part of the 2020 World Day for safety and health at work campaign\, the ILO will produce a global report\, highlighting how a comprehensive OSH [occupational safety and health] framework at both national and workplace level could address violence and harassment in the world of work.  This includes for example incorporating provisions related to violence and harassment into OSH laws\, regulations and collective agreements and developing specific standards\, code of practices and guidelines to support the implementation of programmes and preventive measures in the workplaces. At the workplace level\, sound OSH management systems can include the assessment and control of psychosocial risks including the interplay with violence and harassment.   ILO\, World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2020 – Violence and Harassment in the World of Work
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/world-day-for-health-and-safety-at-work-2021-04-28/
CATEGORIES:UN International
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210428T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210428T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T085624
CREATED:20200121T234452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T235117Z
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SUMMARY:1841: Death of St Peter Chanel in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu)
DESCRIPTION:St Peter Chanel was a Marist priest and the first martyr of the South Pacific. Read more about his life here. \n\n\n\nPrayer to St Peter Chanel \n\n\n\nYou left your homelandto proclaim Jesus\, Saviour of the world\,to the peoples of Oceania. Guided by the Spirit of God\,who is the strength of the gentle\,you bore witness to love\,even laying down your life.Grant that\, like you\,we may live our daily life in peace\, in joy\,and in fraternal love.May your prayer and examplecall forth from our midstmany workers for the Gospelso that God’s Kingdom may reachto the ends of the earth.Amen.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1841-death-of-st-peter-chanel-in-the-new-hebrides-vanuatu-2021-04-28/
CATEGORIES:Liturgy & Church
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210428T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210428T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T085624
CREATED:20200121T234620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200121T234624Z
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SUMMARY:1998: Death of Shirley 'Mum Shirl' Smith\, Aboriginal community leader
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URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1998-death-of-shirley-mum-shirl-smith-aboriginal-community-leader-2021-04-28/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210501T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210501T235900
DTSTAMP:20260404T085624
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SUMMARY:St Joseph the Worker
DESCRIPTION:Resources including a video\, the full text of Bishop Long’s Pastoral Message for the Feast of St Joseph the Worker 2020\, and graphics are available here. \n\n\n\nDid you know that for over twenty years now the Catholic Church in Australia has marked the Feast of St Joseph the Worker with a pastoral letter? These letters place Catholic Social Teaching in dialogue with current work issues in Australia\, making a uniquely Australian contribution to the Church’s teachings on work. Initiated and created by laity and bishops together – they come from and belong to the whole church.  Bishop Terry Brady\, Pastoral Letter for the Feast of St Joseph the Worker\, 2019.\n\n\n\nOn 1 May the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St Joseph the Worker. The pastoral letters of the Australian Catholic Bishops for this occasion have addressed unemployment\, underemployment\, insecure and casualised work\, the meaning of work\, the quest for decent work and much more.   Find out more here.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/st-joseph-the-worker-2021-05-01/
CATEGORIES:Liturgy & Church
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210501T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210501T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T085624
CREATED:20200129T000825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T000828Z
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SUMMARY:International Workers Day
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/international-workers-day-2021-05-01/
CATEGORIES:UN International
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210501T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210501T235959
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SUMMARY:1991: Centesimus Annus (The Hundredth Year) Encyclical issued by Pope John Paul II
DESCRIPTION:The Red Vineyard – Vincent Van Gogh\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the 1991 encyclical Centesimus Annus (The Hundredth Year)\, Pope John Paul II affirmed the groundbreaking encyclical Rerum Novarum from Pope Leo Xlll in 1891 where the fundamental rights and dignity of workers and work were clearly stated. It addressed any ongoing perceived conflict between the provision of capital and labour\, acknowledging work as central to vocation\, with a key social dimension that relates directly to the common good: \n\n\n\n“Work thus belongs to the vocation of every person; indeed\, man expresses and fulfils himself by working. At the same time\, work has a “social” dimension through its intimate relationship not only to the family\, but also to the common good\, since “it may truly be said that it is only by the labour of working-men that States grow rich.” Centesimus Annus\, #6\n\n\n\nEmployers were also challenged again to provide a living wage and humane conditions for their workers as foundational conditions of just employment: \n\n\n\n“A workman’s wages should be sufficient to enable him to support himself\, his wife and his children. “If through necessity or fear of a worse evil the workman accepts harder conditions because an employer or contractor will afford no better\, he is made the victim of force and injustice.” (CA\, #8). \n\n\n\nBoth Rerum Novarum and Centesimo Annos continue to speak powerfully today in regard to human dignity\, especially for workers and their families. Just work policies and practices are part of God’s work in and for our world. \n\n\n\nTo read more about Centesimus Annos: http://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_01051991_centesimus-annus.html
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/centesimus-annus-2021-05-01/
CATEGORIES:Liturgy & Church
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210503T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210503T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T085624
CREATED:20200129T002424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T002427Z
UID:1323-1620000000-1620086399@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:World Press Freedom Day
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/world-press-freedom-day-2021-05-03/
CATEGORIES:UN International
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210503T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210503T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T085624
CREATED:20200129T002604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T002607Z
UID:1327-1620000000-1620086399@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1990: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission established
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1990-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-commission-established-2021-05-03/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210505T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210505T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T085624
CREATED:20200207T033033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200228T045657Z
UID:1376-1620172800-1620259199@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:2016: Bishop Vincent Long Van Nguyen appointed Bishop of Parramatta
DESCRIPTION:Bishop Vincent Long Van Nguyen OFM Conv is the first Vietnamese born bishop to lead a diocese outside of Vietnam and the first Vietnamese born bishop in Australia.  He was born in 1961 in Dong Nai in Vietnam. Since the fall of Saigon in 1975\, his family has been dispersed. \n\n\n\nIn 1984\, Vincent Long became a professed Conventual Franciscan friar (OFM Conv) and studied for the priesthood in Melbourne. After his priestly ordination on 30 December in 1989\, he was sent to Rome for further studies and was awarded a licentiate in Christology and Spirituality from the Pontifical Faculty of St Bonaventure. \n\n\n\nHe served as an assistant and then parish priest for seven years in Kellyville within the Diocese of Parramatta and for seven years in Springvale in Victoria before being elected Superior of the Order of Friars Minor Conventuals in Australia in 2005. He served as Assistant General in Rome from 2008 until 2011\, responsible for the Asia-Oceania section of his Order. \n\n\n\nIn 2011\, he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne in which role he served for nearly five years.  On 16 June 2016\, Bishop Vincent Long OFM Conv was installed as the fourth Bishop of Parramatta at St Patrick’s Cathedral\, Parramatta.  \n\n\n\nFind out more about Bishop Vincent here.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/2016-bishop-vincent-long-van-nguyen-appointed-bishop-of-parramatta-2021-05-05/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian,Liturgy & Church
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210506T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210506T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T085624
CREATED:20200228T045915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200228T045918Z
UID:1471-1620259200-1620345599@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1992: Introduction of mandatory detention of asylum seekers in Australia
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1992-introduction-of-mandatory-detention-of-asylum-seekers-in-australia-2021-05-06/
CATEGORIES:Australian
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210506T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210506T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T085624
CREATED:20200228T050855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200228T051107Z
UID:1477-1620259200-1620345599@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:World Password Day
DESCRIPTION:In his 2005 book Perfect Passwords\, security researcher Mark Burnett encourages people to have a ‘password day’ when thy would update important passwords. Intel Security took up the idea in May 2013 and promoted World Password Day. The day is intended to create awareness of the need for good password security and it is observed on the first Thursday of May. \n\n\n\nHere are some activities for marking World Password Day: \n\n\n\nchange your passwords – tips for creating strong passwords can be found herelayer up and implement multi-factor authentication for your important accounts – learn about layered security herelearn about using password managersmake sure your family and friends understand what makes a strong password.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/world-password-day-2021-05-06/
CATEGORIES:UN International
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210508T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210508T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T085624
CREATED:20200228T051218Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200228T051221Z
UID:1481-1620432000-1620518399@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/world-red-cross-and-red-crescent-day-2021-05-08/
CATEGORIES:UN International
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210508T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210508T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T085624
CREATED:20200228T051346Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200228T051350Z
UID:1485-1620432000-1620518399@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1970: First anti-Vietnam War Moratorium march in Australia
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1970-first-anti-vietnam-war-moratorium-march-in-australia-2021-05-08/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210508T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210508T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T085624
CREATED:20200228T051507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200228T051511Z
UID:1489-1620432000-1620518399@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1997: Wik 'Ten Point Plan' to extinguish native title announced
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1997-wik-ten-point-plan-to-extinguish-native-title-announced-2021-05-08/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210508T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210508T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T085624
CREATED:20200228T051608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210417T060014Z
UID:1493-1620432000-1620518399@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:World Fair Trade Day
DESCRIPTION:World Fair Trade Day is celebrated on the 8th of May\, 2021 and the World Fair Trade Organisation is calling on us to ‘Build Back Fairer’. This is a day where we can reflect on our purchasing and procurement policies and see what are the practical ways we can support ethical and fair trade practices. Catholic organisations such as Ethica and ACRATH provide practical means for us to make trade fair. For more information on the day and the Build Back Fairer statement click here. \n\n\n\nOrganised by the Fair Trade Advocacy Office and World Fair Trade Organisation\, World Fair Trade Day invites us to “Build Back Fairer” \n\n\n\n“We’ve known for a long time that something is wrong with how trade works. Our trade structures and practices are designed in a way that benefits the most powerful…who hold the power in supply chains and set the terms of international trade. Meanwhile small farmers\, artisans and workers have been left vulnerable to exploitation and struggle to earn living incomes and wages.” \n\n\n\nCOVID-19 exasperated these differences\, and the World Fair Trade Organisation is calling for the world to transform and ‘Build Back Fairer’ to deal with the underlying exploitation of people and climate at the heart of destruction of nature\, deforestation\, climate and health crises. \n\n\n\n‘Build Back Fairer’ is the theme of World Trade Fair Day and is taken from the Build Back Fairer Statement released in Sept 2020. This a day where we can reflect on our purchasing and procurement power and plan ways we can support ethical and fair trade practices. \n\n\n\nOn World Trade Fair Day\, be sure to buy fair trade products available at supermarkets\, looking for the fair trade logo or online for example\, at Ethica\, the Fair Trade social enterprise of Mary MacKillop Today. \n\n\n\nFor more information on World Trade Fair Day and the Build Back Fairer Statement go here.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/world-fair-trade-day-2021-05-09/
CATEGORIES:UN International
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210514T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210514T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T085624
CREATED:20200228T051841Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200228T051845Z
UID:1499-1620950400-1621036799@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1971: Paul VI's Apostolic Letter Octogesima Adveniens (A Call to Action)
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URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1971-paul-vis-apostolic-letter-octogesima-adveniens-a-call-to-action-2021-05-14/
CATEGORIES:Liturgy & Church
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210515T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210515T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T085624
CREATED:20200228T051947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200429T025747Z
UID:1503-1621036800-1621123199@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:International Day of Families
DESCRIPTION:The following reflection is from Andy Hamilton SJ. Andy is an Australian Jesuit\, Consulting Editor of Eureka Street\, Editorial Consultant to Australian Catholics\, and a member of the communications team at Jesuit Social Services. \n\n\n\nThe coronavirus has put enormous pressures on all of us as persons\, and on the groups and institutions to which we belong. It has been an affliction. The response to the measures taken to address it has been mixed. Sometimes it has been narrow and divisive\, but more generally it has been extraordinarily good-willed\, generous and patient. It has opened out to a far broader and balanced conversation about other areas of life that have been affected by the virus. One of these is the family. World Family Day invites us to reflect inclusively and with broad sympathy on the family.  \n\n\n\nReflection on the family is often conducted along narrow lines in which we are tempted to focus on one set of relationships and so neglect other relationships that are equally important for healthy family life. The family\, for example\, may be seen as a stable relationship\, recognised as a marriage by state and church\, between mother and father and the children they have borne together. Many people will rightly celebrate this as the Catholic ideal of a good marriage. \n\n\n\nOthers will appeal to dysfunctional families in dismissing this as a primitive and coercive form of association that inhibits individual growth. They might emphasise the freedom of the individuals involved as central to the family. Discussions about the family will then turn to which forms of relationship justify the name of family\, and which are better. These are important questions\, but they are not the questions asked first by people living with the daily challenges and opportunities of family life. \n\n\n\nThe consequences of coronavirus have made us attentive to the complexity and breadth of the relationships involved in families which struggle under its burdens. The economic and social changes brought by the virus have shown\, for example\, the consequences for the family of relationships involved in losing casual work\, in working from home\, in the expectation that all adult members of a family will work\, in schooling\, in recreation\, staying in touch with extended family and friends\, and educational institutions\, of relationships with sport\, television and social media\, and in a house design that offers both common and personal space. \n\n\n\n After coronavirus the way in which these relationships have been shaped can no longer be taken for granted. We shall have experience of the disadvantages and advantages of other shapes we may not have considered.  The merits of working from home and of home schooling will be considered as real possibilities of which we have experience and not simply as abstract ideas.    \n\n\n\nWe shall see more clearly\, too\, how tightly the internal relationships within our families are connected to broader relationships with society. We shall have noticed how pressures of living together in a narrow space can be reflected in family violence and in mental illness. We shall find it difficult to reflect on the inner life of families without setting them against the social conditions in which they live. We shall know that if we wish to address antisocial behaviour we shall have to take account of the social problems that give birth to it. \n\n\n\nAt Jesuit Social Services we work with young people from families which have been disadvantaged. This has often reflected lacks in the way our society cares for families. \n\n\n\nWorld family day is a time to celebrate the generosity and goodness displayed in families\, and the resilience that finds life in the most unfavourable circumstances. It is also a day to ask how as a society we can best to accompany families as they prepare children for a full and generous life.   
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/international-day-of-families-2021-05-15/
CATEGORIES:UN International
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