Grants of up to $20,000 are now available to not-for-profit organisations throughout rural, regional and remote Australia to support projects that improve and strengthen the…
Why are people with disability, illness or injury considered a special group of people, when we all experience human limitations? Daniel Giles reflects on this…
Mrs Mary Pianta has been appointed to the role of Disability Contact Coordinator, on a voluntary basis. Mary will liaise with parishes to identify the…
After seven very busy months meeting clergy, parishioners and board members in parishes and schools across the Diocese, Bishop Shane has commissioned a formal review…
Life has changed. The challenges and opportunities of living during a pandemic have drawn upon our capacities to adjust and adapt, be hopeful, creative and…
Having carefully considered the report of the Working Party, I have accepted its recommendation of ‘incorporating all parish schools into one integrated diocesan system under…
19 May 2020 The Sandhurst Plenary Council Committee has released a new report, "Please Change" What Sandhurst Catholics said about Plenary Council Phase 1: Listening…
14 May 2020 The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference released A Word of Encouragement to the Catholic People of Australia, assuring the people of God of…
Bishop Shane Mackinlay and Paul Desmond, Executive Director of Catholic Education Sandhurst, published a media release pledging support for Catholic school students whose families are…
Prayers continue and livestream details from the Catholic Diocese of Sandhurst will be announced soon.- Read the Letter from the Bishops of Victoria suspending public…
The Diocese of Sandhurst recognises the traditional custodians of the lands upon which we live, serve and worship.
We acknowledge the people of the regions of our Diocese.
We respectfully honour and acknowledge their ongoing custodianship and their connections to the land, waters and animals. We pay our respects to their culture, their Elders, past, present and emerging, for they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture and the hopes of their peoples.
We express our gratitude in the sharing of this land, our sorrow for the personal, spiritual and cultural costs of that sharing and commit ourselves to actively working alongside First Nations People for healing, reconciliation and justice.