The Catholic Weekly 24 July 2022

SUNDAY 24 July, 2022 CatholicWeekly The www.catholicweekly.com.au THE CHURCH. ALL OF IT $2 BE THERE Sydney Parish Renewal Conference 19-20 August 2022 S cott Hahn, one of the giants of the Catholic faith in the US will be a keynote speaker at the Parish Renewal Conference to be held in Sydney from 19-20 August. His message will be clear: despite the sometimes-diffi- cult nature of the times for the Church, lay Catholics can – and must - fan the fires of the new evanglisation in their parishes. Mr Hahn’s talk and the other presentations by expert speakers will help fill out the basic ways that Catholics in Sydney can answer the call of Pope Francis and the popes of the modern era to become a vibrant, positive and inspiring missionary presence in our society. The conference is an initiative of the Archdiocese of Sydney’s Parish Renewal Team, part of the archdiocese’s Centre for Evangelisation and its Go Make Disciples plan for evangelisation. Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP, who will also speak at the conference, has issued a per- sonal rallying call to Catholics wanting to know how they can participate in the new evan- gelisation to participate and attend. “I invite Catholics in Sydney to take advantage of this unique conference and its great line up of speakers such as Scott Hahn to register and participate,” he told TheCatholicWeekly . “As people of faith we are called by Jesus and the Church to be the leaven our society desperately needs. This is a job that we must do together, each in our own ways, in our daily lives and our parishes. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Dr Scott Hahn, a former leading anti-Catholic theologian in the US, is these days a Catholic apologist and theology professor at a Catholic university. He will address the Archdiocese of Sydney’s Parish Renewal Conference in August. PHOTO: SUPPLIED BY DR SCROTT HAHN Archbishop urges Catholics to participate, help light the fire of evangelisation in Sydney FAITH RENEWED RETREATS 2022 LIFTOUT INSIDE P15 A MAN OF HONOUR GERARD BRENNAN P14 2022 EDITION ‘May we try to listen and be silent in order to make space for the beauty of God’ - Pope Francis ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT CatholicWeekly The