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06/09/2017
On Tuesday, 8th August, the fifth and final volume of Confrere, the late Professor Nicholas Tonti-Filippini, series on bioethics was launched at the Cardinal Knox Centre of the Melbourne Archdiocese by His Grace, Anthony Fisher OP, Archbishop of Sydney, a friend of the Professor when they were lecturers together at the Australian Catholic University. His […]
06/09/2017
On 8th August the Most reverend Anthony Fisher OP, Archbishop of Sydney presented the 2017 Harman Lecture (named after Fr Frank Harman, the Melbourne Archdiocese’s leading bioethicist and canon lawyer until his death in 2000). His Grace’s topic “Between the Idea and the Reality: The Future of Marriage in Australia” noted that that most resilient […]
06/09/2017
In Victoria, as well as the annual Lourdes Day Mass held on the first Saturday of December at St Patrick’s Cathedral, members of the Order hold Lourdes Masses at various Catholic aged care centres throughout the year. On Wednesday, 16th August a Lourdes Mass was held at the Assisi Centre in Rosanna which has 150 […]
06/09/2017
This year, 6,000 of our specially designed winter Coats were distributed across Australia. We are currently in the planning stages of our 2018 Campaign. The Coats are ordered in December to arrive in time for winter – therefore funds available at the end of 2017 dictate how many Coats we order for the coming winter. […]
04/09/2017
Coats for the homeless are being supplied with the logo of the Order for the winter months in Alice Springs. In addition, Members are distributing blankets and Rosary bead kits with prayer cards and medals of the Madonna. The distribution of the above items has been coordinated with Fr Raass, SVD – Parish Priest of […]
04/09/2017
On Wednesday, 31st August 2017, Consoeur Frances Booth, Consoeur Maria Randazzo and Confrère Sean Parnell, Members of the Order of Malta NT Group (OM NT Group), were privileged to donate twenty one Children’s Bibles for seven of the thirteen NT Catholic Primary Schools. Another donation for the remaining schools will be made in 2018. Laura […]
04/09/2017
Malteser International is working with aid organizations in the United States of America to coordinate relief efforts for residents of the Houston area in Texas. Tropical storm Hurricane Harvey has been officially downgraded, but the storm has made a second landfall in Louisiana. “However millions of people continue to be threatened by the unprecedented flooding.” […]
31/08/2017
Our biggest project to date, the Order of Malta Medical Clinic in Dili, is almost complete. In Timor-Leste diseases exist and remain untreated, that in ‘first-world’ countries are easily cured. Individuals, especially children, are more susceptible to illness due to poor nutrition. Both mothers and children during childbirth have an alarming mortality rate. The opportunity […]
31/08/2017
Creating Leaders is an Order of Malta scholarship program in Timor-Leste. Like many developing countries, Timor-Leste has high levels of poverty and low national human development. Education is an important vehicle to employment, independence, social and political empowerment and consequently, national development. However, a cycle of poverty often creates barriers to the children’s participation in […]
31/08/2017
On the Occasion of celebrating the Annunciation, at the Annunciation church at Taklee, His Grace Bishop Pibul of Nakorn Sawan Diocese, chaired the distribution of rice, cooking oil, and dried food donated by Members of the Order of Malta in Thailand to the disabled and poor who attend the ceremony, most of them Buddhist, from […]
The Australian Association, formed in 1974, currently has in excess of 300 members and aspirant members across every State and Territory of Australia. We also have ongoing and strong links with the Order’s National Associations throughout the Asia Pacific Region including in Singapore and the Philippines and with members of the Order in New Zealand, Hong Kong SAR, Thailand and Korea. The Order of Malta is committed to serving Our Lords the Poor and Sick worldwide and has done so for over 900 years. This website shares with you the history, mission and current activities of the Order of Malta in Australia, and provides links to the work of the Order world-wide.
