2019 Annual Report COVER IMAGE: WORLD YOUTH DAY LOCAL CELEBRATION AT SACRED HEART COLLEGE PHOTOGRAPHER: BEN MACMAHON 2019 Annual Report 4 Who We Are 21 Our Works and Community 5 Messages 21 Chaplaincy 5 From the Bishop 22 Multicultural Office 6 From the 23 Archives Administrator Delegate 24 Events 7 From the Acting Chancellor 25 Family and Parish Based Catechesis 26 Catholic Office for 8 Centacare Catholic Youth and Young Adults Family Services 27 Communications 9 Catholic Education SA 28 Giving 11 Our People 28 Fundraising 29 Catholic Charities 11 Clergy Care 30 Caritas Australia 12 Safe Environments for All 30 Catholic Mission 14 Tribunal 15 Human Resources 31 Finance 17 Our Faith 35 Contact Directory 17 Vocations 18 Ministry Formation Program 20 Office for Worship CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF ADELAIDE CONTENTS 3 Who We Are About Us Catholic social teaching principles: The Adelaide Archdiocese dates back to 1842, just six years Dignity of the Human Person We uphold the dignity of all after the first fleet arrived at Glenelg. Today it is home to more independent of ethnicity, creed, than 275,000 Catholics – about 18 per cent of the population – gender, sexuality, ability, or age. and covers 105,000 sq km. There are 58 parishes and Community and communities with 129 Mass centres, 34 migrant and Eastern the Common Good rite communities and groups, and 87 Catholic schools with We believe that the common approximately 42,000 students. good is served when we work together to improve the wellbeing of all people and creation, in our own communities and in our Our Purpose Our Values wider world. The Adelaide Archdiocese aims We adhere to our Catholic values, Dignity of Work to be a community that lives and which are based on our love for We believe that work is dignified expresses the joy of the gospel of God and for every human being, and an intrinsic good and that Jesus, serving others, especially according to the gospel and the workers must always be respected in the places where people are tradition of our Church: and valued, demonstrated suffering, disempowered by through their right to productive circumstance and furthest from • The need for and work, a just wage and to form life to the full. importance of community and join unions. • Positive relationships This will be done by supporting between individuals Preferential Option for People the Eight Gospel Characteristics who Experience Social or of Renewal: • Respect for the uniqueness Economic Poverty of individuals We believe that for justice to 1. The parish is a community in be upheld, we must speak and act • Professional commitment which each member is called particularly for those experiencing of staff to a personal relationship poverty, vulnerability or whose with Jesus. • An ethical approach voices are not heard. to our practice 2. Eucharistic liturgies Solidarity are prayerful and fully • The provision of We believe that all humankind is participative. quality services interdependent, that we need one 3. The Word of God is • Integrity in all we do another and that we are called to proclaimed in good preaching stand in solidarity with each other and in faithful lives. in our one human family. 4. There is a warm sense Subsidiarity of community outreach We believe that whatever can and welcome. properly be done at the local 5. The parish community is level should be done at that visibly engaged with those level and not subsumed by who experience poverty and a higher authority. need, and with those at the margins of society and church. Care of God’s Creation We believe the earth and all life 6. The parish witnesses to on it are part of God’s good God’s love for all the creatures creation. We are responsible for of Earth. taking care of the world in which 7. The parish is led by a priest we live, for sharing all its wonders with a pastoral team. and resources, and preserving 8. Eucharistic communities them for all who follow after us. that are viable will be enabled to continue. 4 WHO WE ARE 2019 ANNUAL REPORT From the Bishop As my role of Apostolic Administrator the ordination of Pasquale Lopresti continued in 2019, I was delighted to the diaconate, and Tee Ping Koh to be able to welcome nearly 5,500 and Alfred Donat to the permanent teachers, school and parish leaders, diaconal candidacy. Later in the priests, school administrators and year when ordaining Tee Ping and other staff from the Diocese of Alfred as permanent deacons for Port Pirie and the Archdiocese of the Adelaide Archdiocese, I spoke Adelaide at the “Live, Learn, Lead, of the support these men had Together” conference. received from their wives Mary Ann and Hellen. The growing number of The energy and enthusiasm at this deacons is a great gift to the Church, event was evident from the moment bringing as it does their diverse lived the young Aboriginal dancers experience into our midst. provided a Welcome to Country to the inspiring addresses of the keynote Pentecost was a time to reflect speakers and videos featuring on the extraordinary number of messages from school children. more than 220,000 people who participated in the first phase of The care of the young is an integral the Plenary Council discernment work of mercy, a sign of the Church process, and responded to the being Church, and in the present question ‘What does God want of turmoils of the Church our schools us in Australia at this time?’ have never been so important – an outreach of 46,000 souls. It is remarkable and consoling to note the intense interest and love for the As Easter approached we launched Church that prompts such large numbers Project Compassion, another important to go to the trouble of communicating way of living the gospel messages of their thoughts to the bishops. charity and loving one another. It was with this in mind that I At the same time, we were joined my fellow bishops in June confronted with a great threat to for a week of conferences with the the Christian attitude to life – the Vatican administration in Rome, as introduction of a bill in Parliament to well as a preliminary retreat and remove all laws around the ending of A long-time devotee of St Mary a two-hour interview as a group of the Cross MacKillop, whose the life of pre-born babies. We urged with Pope Francis. Overall, it was Catholics to express their opposition legacy is found in our schools, aged a very positive experience and care homes and welfare agencies, to this proposal and later made a an opportunity to express our formal submission to a Government it was a great pleasure to bless loyalty to the Holy Father and our the redeveloped Mary MacKillop review on abortion instigated by the commitment to the good of the Attorney General. Museum at Kensington towards the universal Church. end of the year. Our preparations for Holy Week In September I was privileged to We are fortunate to have so many were shockingly interrupted by the celebrate the dedication of a new Christchurch mosque massacre individuals and groups in our 1,200-seat church for the Vietnamese Catholic community living their faith and as a community we showed community at Pooraka, reflecting our solidarity through an interfaith through their deeds. In the words of the huge contribution of migrant Mary MacKillop “Let us rejoice and memorial in St Francis Xavier’s communities to our Church in SA. Cathedral. Too soon after, we were thank God for giving us such proofs again gathering in the Cathedral Throughout the year there were of His love”. with Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and regular gatherings of the clergy members of Christian denominations which gave us the opportunity to and the general public as we prayed reflect on our vocation and focus on Bishop Greg O’Kelly SJ for the victims of the Sri Lankan our spiritual and personal growth. Apostolic Administrator of the bombings in churches and hotels. We welcomed our new priests Archdiocese of Adelaide from overseas and also rejoiced Bishop of Port Pirie Diocese These tragedies were intermingled at the admission to candidacy with joyful events such as the of seminarians Olek Stirrat and Chrism Mass and Easter Triduum, Anthony Beltrame. CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF ADELAIDE MESSAGES 5 From the Administrator Delegate Never has a year begun with such This works as a goal for our parishes One of our seminarians, Rev Pat a spectacular blaze of sound and too, communities where from birth Lopresti, threw his life into the colour as this one. to death we support each other in service of this adventure when he growing into the fullness of God’s was ordained Deacon in April on We poured into the Entertainment desire for us and for our world. his way to priestly ordination, and Centre on a furiously hot January Rev Tee Ping Koh and Alfred Donat day - 6,000 teachers, support It is the same vision that drives the joined him as they committed personnel, administrators, along welfare mission of our Centacare themselves to permanent ministry as with clergy and leaders from offices and staff. Deacons in November. Centacare, diocese and parishes, young people and old. We reflected together on what Jesus We suffered the death of many lived and taught: that everyone friends this year from among our That day set the tone for everything matters absolutely; that every faithful people, our religious and our in the year that followed. We laid broken heart and relationship is to be clergy.