Catholic Identity 

The Australian Catholic Youth Festival will be held in Melbourne from November 30 – December 2 2025 at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre. This exciting event will bring together thousands of young people from across Australia and the Pacific region for workshops, speakers, concerts, prayer, and a wide range of activities.

Catholic College Sale is inviting up to 10 students from Years 9–12 to register their interest in attending.  Contact Mr Hobbs, jhobbs@ccsale.catholic.edu.au if you're interested in attending. 

One of the key elements of our Sion Charism is incorporating the process of dialogue into our lives. Dialogue is the action of listening to others and responding positively in a way which acknowledges and values the point of view of others while being able to express and hold our own views. Dialogue assumes a willingness to grow and to nurture growth.

A lot of the activities our students have undertaken this term have centred around dialogue: in the Religious Education classroom students have looked at issues of justice, people who have made a real difference in the lives of others, considered how law and religion influence our own values, and worked towards a fuller understanding of ethics in our lives.

A group of our Year 10 students recently attended Our Lady of Sion College in Box Hill along with students from Marist Sion College, Ilim College and Mt Scopus College on a Day of Dialogue. This day enabled students to hear from others from Jewish and Islamic perspectives while voicing their own experiences of religion and culture. Our students learnt to appreciate the other while recognising many similarities we all share as human beings.

Our Year 9 and Year 12 students were led by the Passionist Youth Team on a journey of discovering their own sense of worth while talking to others in their year levels about personal and big issues that may affect their lives. Our Year 12s also reflected on their time at Catholic College and gave thanks to others. Our Year 8s also had the opportunity to learn how to communicate with respect and care as the YourChoicez group led our girls and boys, separately, through a process of learning about the power of words and actions.

These activities were celebrated during our Founders’ Day Liturgy, which allowed us, as a school community, to reflect on the values and work of the generations who came before us to establish our school. Our Year 10 Religious Education Service in Action class presented a thoughtful reflection on how our past influences the people we are today.

At the action end of dialogue, we have been able to send a group of Year 11s to Timor-Leste to learn from our neighbours while, closer to home, a group of senior students have tested their endurance at our annual homeless sleepout as a means of showing solidarity with those who don’t have our privileges.

Jeff Hobbs 

Director of Catholic Identity