Knights of the Southern Cross Victoria

14/06/2026

Last week’s Corpus Christi Procession run by the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne featured representatives of the many Catholic organisations, lay and clerical. Featured here is the photo of our Deputy State Chairman Andrew Vaccaro representing the KSCV (and bearing the Knights of the Southern Cross flag) while wearing his Knights of Columbus 4th Degree uniform, which he wears as a dual member of the Knights of Columbus Hawaii.

Photo: instagram

12/06/2026

Jesus is God’s love in human form. On this Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, we contemplate anew how great, how all-encompassing this love is for us.

The feast grew from the revelations to 17th century mystic St Margaret Mary Alacoque, who encountered Christ’s heart burning with boundless love for humanity at a time when many believed some were beyond that love.

Deep within every human heart is the desire to be loved completely, even in our brokenness. In Jesus, that love takes flesh and is freely given to us. On this solemnity, may we draw close to his Sacred Heart—the source of mercy and grace—and ask for the grace to turn toward him, who alone can satisfy our deepest longing.

🎨 This painting of the Lord, holding the emblem of his love, compassion, and mercy is in the Portuguese church in Rome. Photo by Fr Lawrence Lew OP.

07/06/2026

A great turnout from all of Melbourne’s Catholic community, including the Knights of the Southern Cross Victoria- did you see our flag?

04/06/2026

01/06/2026

Victoria’s faith leaders have called on the Victorian Government to fix Victoria’s conversion therapy laws rather than expand them. In their submission faith leaders affirmed their opposition to harmful practices of coercion while reiterating their concerns that the Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Act 2021 ‘extends far beyond addressing these harmful practices’.

They said the Bill appears to ‘target people of faith in an unprecedented way, puts limits on ordinary conversations in families, and legislates for what prayer is legal and what prayer is not.’

Find out more: https://melbournecatholic.org/news/faith-leaders-call-upon-the-victorian-government-to-fix-conversion-therapy-laws

27/05/2026

‘In the era of artificial intelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanisation, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human,’ Pope Leo writes in his landmark encyclical on preserving the human person in the age of AI. ‘We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendour of which no machine can ever replace.’

Read more: https://melbournecatholic.org/news/magnifica-humanitas-pope-leos-ai-encyclical-warns-of-temptation-to-build-future-excluding-god

26/05/2026

Friends, as you may have seen, Pope Leo XIV has released his first encyclical: Magnifica humanitas – On safeguarding the human person in a time of Artificial Intelligence. In this important work, Pope Leo neither rejects technology nor fears progress. Instead, he invites us to ask a deeper question: What kind of humanity are we becoming? Magnifica humanitas is ultimately a call to ensure that innovation strengthens, rather than weakens, our relationships with one another and with God. I warmly encourage you to read it: bit.ly/MAGNIFICAHUMANITAS

📷: CNS photo/Lola Gomez

24/05/2026

The Commissioning Mass for the new Knights of the Southern Cross National Executive is live at the following link:

2026.05.24 - 10am Mass for Pentecost Sundayfrom the Cathedral of St StephenArchbishop Shane Mackinlay

23/05/2026

We live in a time when, on the one hand, it has never been easier to communicate with each other. A dizzying array of technologies allow us to transmit an opinion, selfie or withering put-down to a stranger on the other side of the globe in mere seconds. On the other hand, it can sometimes feel like the more we ‘communicate’, the less we connect.

It’s hardly surprising that the messages we are most drawn to are those that reinforce what we already value and believe, helping us to feel smugly superior or ideologically pure. This tendency has only been supercharged by algorithms that trap us in comfortable echo chambers, feeding us a steady, self-perpetuating diet of outrage. Instead of doing the uncomfortable work of building real community—looking outward, welcoming each person’s unique gifts, exposing ourselves to new perspectives—we can quickly find ourselves settling for myopic tribalism and living in a fragmented, distrustful world.

The Church, of course, has never been immune from this dynamic, as we see in Paul’s first letter to the fledgling community of believers in Corinth. It seems there were some there who felt their spiritual experience and contributions were of a higher or purer order than those of their brothers and sisters—a way of thinking that Paul was keen to nip in the bud. What binds the community together, allowing each to declare that ‘Jesus is Lord’, he wrote, is not an insistence that each member adhere to a single, superior approach to the life of faith. Rather, he says, ‘There is a variety of gifts but always the same Spirit’ (1 Corinthians 2:4). It is the Spirit alone that brings us together as one Body, the Church.

In a world where we so often seem to be speaking at cross-purposes, the feast of Pentecost is worth celebrating. It reminds us that every human barrier to communication and community is overcome by the Spirit of God, who draws us together into the Church, in all our splendid diversity, and communicates to us, each in our own language, the ‘marvels of God’ (Acts 2:11).

🎨 Pentecost, by Juan Bautista Maíno.

23/05/2026

The second day of the Knights of the Southern Cross 10th National Triennial Conference in Brisbane began with a keynote speech by former Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott on the topic of ‘Australia’s History and our Christian Foundations’. Following his talk he signed copies of his new book ‘Australia: A History’.