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SUMMARY:1901 Foundation of the Commonwealth of Australia
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URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1901-foundation-of-the-commonwealth-of-australia/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210101T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210101T235959
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SUMMARY:1994 Native Title Act
DESCRIPTION:1994: Commencement of the Native Title Act
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1994-native-title-act-2021-01-06/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210101T080000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210101T170000
DTSTAMP:20260409T142244
CREATED:20210112T061943Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210112T061950Z
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SUMMARY:World Day of Peace
DESCRIPTION:Pope Paul VI instituted the World Day of Peace in 1968. It is celebrated each year on 1 January and the Pope issues a special World Day of Peace Message for the occasion. \n\n\n\nThe theme for the World Day of Peace Message 2021 is A Culture of Care as a Path to Peace. Pope Francis begins by reflecting that 2020 has shown us “how important it is to care for one another and for creation”. Hence he proposes a culture of care “as a way to combat the culture of indifference\, waste and confrontation so prevalent in our time”. \n\n\n\nIn the Message Pope Francis traces how care and protection\, love and compassion permeate the Christian story from creation\, throughout the life and ministry of Jesus\, in the early church and as the “beating heart of the Church’s social doctrine” today.  \n\n\n\nThe full text of the Message is available here.  Download our Discussion Guide here. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nYou can find Pope Francis’ World Day of Peace Messages here.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/world-day-of-peace-2/
CATEGORIES:Liturgy & Church
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210103T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210103T235900
DTSTAMP:20260409T142244
CREATED:20191126T021955Z
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SUMMARY:1977 First loans offered by Grameen Bank
DESCRIPTION:The Grameen Bank was founded by Professor Muhammad Yunus in Bangladesh. In 2006 he won a Nobel Peace Prize for this work. \n\n\n\nThe Grameen Bank\, known as the ‘bank for the poor’\, reversed conventional banking practice by removing the need for collateral. It created a banking system based on mutual trust\, accountability\, participation and creativity.  Yunus reasons that credit is a cost effective weapon to fight poverty and it serves as a catalyst in the over all development of socio-economic conditions of the poor. Find out more here.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1977-first-loans-offered-by-grameen-bank-2021-01-01/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210110T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210110T235900
DTSTAMP:20260409T142244
CREATED:20191126T023003Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201118T060859Z
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SUMMARY:1946 First UN General Assembly Opens
DESCRIPTION:Fifty one nations were represented at the opening of the first General Assembly of the United Nations in 1946. You can find out about the resolutions of this General Assembly here.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1946-first-un-general-assembly-opens/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,UN International
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210122T080000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210122T170000
DTSTAMP:20260409T142244
CREATED:20210119T232628Z
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SUMMARY:2021: International Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons enters into force.
DESCRIPTION:In his encyclical\, Fratelli Tutti (On Fraternity and Social Friendship)\, Pope Francis questions nuclear deterrence as a way of promoting peace  noting “the catastrophic humanitarian and environmental consequences that would follow from any use of nuclear weapons\, with devastating\, indiscriminate and uncontainable effects\, over time and space” (n 262). He concludes that “the ultimate goal of the total elimination of nuclear weapons” is both “a challenge and a moral and humanitarian imperative” (n 262). \n\n\n\nThe International Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is an important response to this moral imperative. ICAN (the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) have produced a booklet explaining the Treaty. You can read the full text of the treaty here. \n\n\n\nThe Holy See is a strong backer of the Treaty and was amongst the first to sign and ratify the Treaty. Here in Australia\, Bishop Terry Brady\, the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Delegate for Social Justice\, has called on the Australian Government to sign the Treaty and work towards its ratification.  Bishop Brady says that the use of nuclear weapons is immoral as they are inherently indiscriminate and their impact is uncontainable in time and space. Furthermore\, their continued existence “poses an unacceptable risk of deliberate or accidental use\, and it diverts resources from the things that positively foster peace”. \n\n\n\nAction\n\n\n\nYou can join ICAN’s action to ask the Australian Government to sign the Treaty\, to encourage our cities and towns to support the Treaty\, and to ask superannuation funds to cut ties with companies that produce nuclear weapons. \n\n\n\nPray for an end to nuclear weapons. Printed copies of the prayer card can be purchased here.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/2021-international-treaty-prohibiting-nuclear-weapons-enters-into-force/
CATEGORIES:UN International
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210124T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210124T235900
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CREATED:20191126T034150Z
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SUMMARY:St Francis de Sales
DESCRIPTION:St Francis de Sales is the patron saint of journalists. \n\n\n\nFake news is not new as Dr Margaret van Heekeren noted at the launch of the Social Justice Statement 2019-20. \n\n\n\n‘A week after Easter\, 85 years ago in 1934\, the then Pope\, Pius XI\, gave an historic audience to all foreign press correspondents in Rome – about 73 journalists\, responsible for providing news from the Vatican to more than 5\,000 newspapers around the world. Described as an ‘innovation’ by the London Times\, the papal audience can also be regarded as a political move. As historical research reveals\, the Vatican had\, by this time\, long been the subject of fake news\, much of it shared on wire services around the globe. Throughout the early 1900s fake stories included a proposal to edit the Bible\, the false report of a petition by French priests calling for their vow of celibacy to be dispensed and even an invented interview with Pope Pius X.’ Margaret van Heekeren\, Launch of the Social Justice Statement 2019-20.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/st-francis-de-sales/
CATEGORIES:Liturgy & Church
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210125T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210125T235900
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CREATED:20191126T052509Z
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SUMMARY:1959 Pope John XXIII announces intention to convoke the Second Vatican Council
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URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1959-pope-john-xxiii-announces-intention-to-convoke-the-second-vatican-council/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Liturgy & Church
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210126T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210126T235900
DTSTAMP:20260409T142244
CREATED:20191201T225632Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201118T061847Z
UID:626-1611619200-1611705540@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1972 Aboriginal Tent Embassy Established in Canberra
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URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1972-aboriginal-tent-embassy-established-in-canberra/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210126T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210126T235959
DTSTAMP:20260409T142244
CREATED:20191127T000910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210125T032328Z
UID:623-1611619200-1611705599@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:Australia Day / Survival Day
DESCRIPTION:2021 Australia Day Reflection from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council\n\n\n\n“We find ourselves pondering whether Australia will ever be the same after COVID-19? It might be more useful to ask whether it should be the same after the pandemic. Australia can continue to learn from the challenges of the virus and embrace the gifts of First Nation’s Culture to make it a better place for all. \n\n\n\nWhilst we should be talking about these things all year\, Australia Day is often the trigger for discussions around moving the date\, what our Country stands for or changing the National Anthem. For the record: \n\n\n\n– Yes\, we should change the date to May 27 (the day that Australia voted to grant citizenship to us Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and to remove us from under the Fauna and Flora Act in 1967)\, \n\n\n\n– Australia should stand for equality\, respect\, and compassion for all and\, \n\n\n\n– Yes\, the National Anthem should be representative of all.” \n\n\n\nRead more of NATSICC’s 2021 Australia Day Reflection here. Drawing on wisdom from the experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities in dialogue with Scripture and Catholic Social Teaching\, it offers four recommendations: \n\n\n\n1. After suffering together through the pandemic\, Australians should forge forwards with humble hearts and a unity of mind and armed with a renewed sense of equality and care for one another. \n\n\n\n2. Continue to empower and acknowledge the dignity and worth of individuals\, created equally in the image of God\, through the extension of assistance schemes and the provision of a living wage. \n\n\n\n3. All Australians should acknowledge\, in our actions and in legislation\, that Elders/Old People are valuable and contributing members of society and that we are responsible to care for and love them – just as they did for us. \n\n\n\n4. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander gifts\, skills\, and knowledge to be utilised for the betterment of First Nations Peoples and Australia as a whole. \n\n\n\n“As we enter 2021 with a sense of hope and ‘rebirth’ we ask that\, for the first time in post-colonial history\, Australians stand together to lift one another up. Stand alongside the Traditional Custodian. Stand alongside the migrant striving for a better life. Stand alongside the grandmother that has lived through so much. We are much stronger\, and much better when we are together.” 2021 Australia Day Reflection\, NATSICC.\n\n\n\nIn 2019 the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council (NATSICC) first publicly joined calls for the date of Australia Day to be changed. They explained: \n\n\n\nThe 26th of January 1788 was not a day of celebration for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people nor was it for the passengers upon the first fleet – a mix of prisoners and military personnel. Perhaps it is time that we rethink the date upon which our nation comes together as one to recognise and acknowledge the gifts that God has provided in our great southern land. For the past year\, those that sit upon the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council have asked their community\, peers\, friends and fellow Catholics if they celebrate Australia Day. The resounding response was no. That answer was not followed by hatred or vitriol\, it was simply that they felt it was not meant for them nor was it mindful of the hurt experienced by Australia’s First People. For many\, the opportunity to spend the day with family and friends is appreciated and our people understand and respect the pride that some Australians have for the day\, however the foundation of unity and inclusiveness is just not there.Celebrating our nation on a day that harbors grief\, invokes painful memories and ignores the true history of our society just doesn’t make sense. Given that the day has been celebrated on various dates and under different names in the past 100 years\, what will be lost by moving the date? National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council\, 2019. \n\n\n\nFor Reflection\n\n\n\nKey points from NATSICC’s statement: \n\n\n\nA majority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholics feel that Australia Day is not for them.NATSICC endorses the call to change the date of Australia Day and suggests 27 May as a starting point for conversation. A ‘True History’ educational program should accompany Australia Day to educate and promote understanding of the story of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Every Catholic School in Australia should teach this history. The next generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are carrying lots of pain and anger because of things like Australia Day. Something must change!
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/australia-day-survival-day-2021-01-24/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210127T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210127T235959
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CREATED:20191202T001716Z
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SUMMARY:World Leprosy Day
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URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/world-leprosy-day/
CATEGORIES:UN International
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