Integrity in Ministry

This document serves as a code of conduct for Catholic Clergy and Religious in Australia. Integrity in Ministry acts as a code of conduct for Clergy and Religious which sets out behavior that integrates both Religious and day-today Ministry.

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Integrity in the Service of the Church

This document is a guide and code of conduct for any lay person involved in work with the Church. This includes Employees, Volunteers and Contractors.

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The National Response Protocol 

The National Response Protocol is an internal church document that outlines the Churches response to complaints of abuse and the procedures that must be followed after a complaint is made to a Church authority.

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New South Wales  

Child or young person currently at risk of significant harm

• Report to Police 000
  Contact the Police first if the situation requires emergency assistance.
• Department of Communities and Justice Helpline 132 111
• Crimestoppers
  1800 333 000
• Safeguarding Coordinator
  Where the alleged perpetrator is a church worker (paid or unpaid).
  Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Knowledge of relevant criminal offences

• Report to Police 000
• Safeguarding Coordinator
  Where the alleged perpetrator is a church worker (paid or unpaid).
  Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Child abuse by a church worker

• Report to Police 000
• Safeguarding Coordinator
  Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Northern Territory

Child or young person currently at risk of significant harm

• Report to Police 000
  Contact the Police first if the situation requires emergency assistance.
• Territory Families, Housing and Communities 1800700
• Crimestoppers
  1800 333 000
• Safeguarding Coordinator
  Where the alleged perpetrator is a church worker (paid or unpaid).
  Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Knowledge of relevant criminal offences

• Report to Police 000
• Safeguarding Coordinator
  Where the alleged perpetrator is a church worker (paid or unpaid).
  Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Child abuse by a church worker

• Report to Police 000
• Safeguarding Coordinator
  Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Queensland

Child or young person currently at risk of significant harm

• Report to Police 000
  Contact the Police first if the situation requires emergency assistance.
• Department of Children, Youth and Justice 1800811810
• Crimestoppers
  1800 333 000
• Safeguarding Coordinator
  Where the alleged perpetrator is a church worker (paid or unpaid).
  Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Knowledge of relevant criminal offences

• Report to Police 000
• Safeguarding Coordinator
  Where the alleged perpetrator is a church worker (paid or unpaid).
  Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Child abuse by a church worker

• Report to Police 000
• Safeguarding Coordinator
  Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

South Australia

Child or young person currently at risk of significant harm

• Report to Police 000
  Contact the Police first if the situation requires emergency assistance.
• Department of Child Protection 131478
• Crimestoppers
  1800 333 000
• Safeguarding Coordinator
  Where the alleged perpetrator is a church worker (paid or unpaid).
  Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Knowledge of relevant criminal offences

• Report to Police 000
• Safeguarding Coordinator
  Where the alleged perpetrator is a church worker (paid or unpaid).
  Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Child abuse by a church worker

• Report to Police 000
• Safeguarding Coordinator
  Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Victoria

Child or young person currently at risk of significant harm

• Report to Police 000
  Contact the Police first if the situation requires emergency assistance.
• Department of Families, fairness and Housing (Child abuse line) 131278
• Crimestoppers
  1800 333 000
• Safeguarding Coordinator
  Where the alleged perpetrator is a church worker (paid or unpaid).
  Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Knowledge of relevant criminal offences

• Report to Police 000
• Safeguarding Coordinator
  Where the alleged perpetrator is a church worker (paid or unpaid).
  Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Child abuse by a church worker

• Report to Police 000
• Safeguarding Coordinator
  Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

For any of the above or any other Safeguarding enquirers please contact the Safeguarding Coordinator on the details outlined above or complete the confidential contact form below.

The National Redress Scheme is in response to the recommendations made by the Royal Commission into Institutionalized Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart have joined the National Redress Scheme for those who have experienced institutional child sexual abuse. This was confirmed by Ministerial Declaration on 6th May 2020.

The National Redress Scheme Website contains information for survivors of institutional child sexual abuse and information on how to make an application under the scheme. In addition to National Redress Scheme can be contacted on 1800 737 377.

During this time of social isolation it is important that we pray and stay connected to our community. Please find below a range of online resources to assist with this. These include daily prayers and readings, prayer services, the Sunday Office, commentaries, homilies and reflections as well as Gospel based activities and resources to support personal and family prayer. Let us create prayerful solidarity with our community and the whole Body of Christ. 

On Monday afternoon as we gathered together as OLSH Family for the “Call to Leadership at the Service of Unity” Ceremony, I thought “Lord it is good for us to be here”.

Standing side by side we began the Ceremony with our traditional hymn to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart.

Today we express our appreciation and love to our Jubilarians – Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, who over seventy years ago began a journey which has taken them to places and situations that they possibly never dreamed about, on their first profession day. Amazing 70 years ago! It would be difficult for many people in our society today to even imagine this sort of selfless commitment to God and to God’s people. Their lives of dedication and long-term commitment are an inspiration to all of us.

At the Chapter meetings of our Religious Congregation of Sisters, the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, in September 2019, I heard voices proclaiming the continued need for us to be mindful of our earth as we care for the environment. I heard voices also that proclaimed that people are looking for a sense of inner freedom in their lives and long for others to care for their plight.

Through my experience with people as I meet and journey with them, I hear voices of a traumatic life and experiences which leave them feeling abandoned even when they have people around them, I hear voices which tell of the need to squash their feelings through the abuse of drugs, I hear voices of people who have been abused, of people who are trying to make ends meet. In recent days and months, we have all heard the voices and seen the images of the destruction of the bushfires.

Come you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. (Lk 5:4)

Bishop Shane Mackinlay, the eighth Bishop of Sandhurst, was ordained to the episcopacy in Bendigo’s Sacred Heart Cathedral yesterday.

Dignitaries, family, friends and parishioners numbered close to 2000 people, including those from as far as Ballarat, Echuca, Shepparton, Wangaratta and Wodonga.

Bishop Mackinlay’s brother, Jason, made the journey from Germany, while Victoria Jarvis, who was at the new bishop’s ordination to the priesthood in Ballarat, drove nearly seven hours from Adelaide for the occasion.

The ordination was live streamed on YouTube for those who could not attend the Mass in person. It was viewed from 54 countries, with the top national audiences outside Australia being the United States, Canada, the Philippines and Vietnam.

Pope Francis has appointed Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Sydney, Anthony Randazzo as the fourth Bishop of the Diocese of Broken Bay.

The 53-year-old bishop has been an Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Sydney since 2016. He succeeds Peter Comensoli who was appointed Archbishop of Melbourne in 2018.