Australian bishops

Diocese of Wollongong Australia Synod Submission

Diocese of Wollongong Australia Synod Submission

Bishop's Synod, Australian bishops - April 22, 2024

In March 2020, Pope Francis announced that the theme for the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in October 2023 would be...

Fr Chris de Souza named general secretary of Bishops Conference

Fr Chris de Souza named general secretary of Bishops Conference

Clergy, Australian bishops - May 26, 2023

The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has appointed Fr Chris de Souza, currently serving as one of two vicars general in the Diocese of Parramatta, as...

Bishop Ken Howell appointed seventh Bishop of Toowoomba

Bishop Ken Howell appointed seventh Bishop of Toowoomba

Australian bishops, Bishop Brian Mascord - May 25, 2023

Bishop Brian Mascord extends his congratulations and prayers to Bishop Ken Howell, who has been appointed by Pope Francis as the seventh Bishop of Toowoomba....

ACBC | XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops

ACBC | XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops

Bishop's Synod, Liturgy, Australian bishops, Parish life - August 16, 2022

In March 2020, Pope Francis announced that the theme for the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in October 2023 would be...

ACBC Respect: Confronting Violence and Abuse

ACBC Respect: Confronting Violence and Abuse

Australian bishops - August 3, 2022

Australia’s bishops have used their annual social justice statement to condemn the scourge of domestic and family violence, saying relationships must be “marked by respect...

Diocesan husband and wife to represent Australia at the World Meeting of Families

Diocesan husband and wife to represent Australia at the World Meeting of Families

New evangelisation, Jude Hennessy, Family and life, Australian bishops - June 12, 2022

Congratulations and prayers for our diocesan director of the Office of Renewal and Evangelisation, Jude Hennessy, and his wife and local diocesan Catholic school teacher,...

In election statement, bishops call for ‘a better kind of politics’

In election statement, bishops call for ‘a better kind of politics’

Australian Election 2022, Australian bishops - April 26, 2022

Australia’s Catholic bishops have called for a shakeup that focuses the country’s politics on the common good of all, including – and especially – those...

Local consultation opens for global Synod of Bishops

Local consultation opens for global Synod of Bishops

Bishop's Synod, Pope Francis, Australian bishops - October 19, 2021

Catholics are invited to join local consultations about their experience of synodality within the Church as part of a two-year journey towards the next international...

Diocese of Wollongong set to produce Network Ten’s Mass For You At Home

Diocese of Wollongong set to produce Network Ten’s Mass For You At Home

COVID-19, Prayer, New evangelisation, Australian bishops, Bishop Brian Mascord - February 23, 2021

The Diocese of Wollongong is set to become the new producer of Mass for You at Home, beaming Mass into people’s living rooms across...

Service Agreement

Definitions

Account means the account held at your financial institution from which we are authorised to arrange for funds to be debited.

Agreement means this Direct Debit Request Service Agreement between you and us, including the direct debit request.

Business day means a day other than a Saturday or a Sunday or a listed public holiday.

Debit day means the day that payment is due.

Debit payment means a particular transaction where a debit is made, according to your direct debit request.

Direct debit request means the Direct Debit Request between us and you.

Us and we and our means the Catholic Development Fund.

You means the customer(s) who signed the direct debit request. Your financial institution is the financial institution where you hold the account that you have authorised us to arrange to debit.

Debiting your account

By submitting a direct debit request, you have authorised us to arrange for funds to be debited from your account according to the agreement we have with you.

We will only arrange for funds to be debited from your account:

As authorised in the direct debit request; if the debit day falls on a day that is not a business day, we may direct your financial institution to debit your account on the following or previous business day. If you are unsure about which day your account has or will be debited, please check with your financial

Changes by you

If you wish to stop or defer a debit payment you must write to us at least 5 business days before the next debit day.

This notice should be given to us in the first instance.

Your obligations

It is your responsibility to ensure that there are sufficient clear funds available in your account to allow a debit payment to be made.

If there are insufficient clear funds available in your account to meet a debit payment:

you or your account may be charged a fee and/or interest by your financial institution;
you or your account may be charged a fee to reimburse us for charges we have incurred for the failed transaction;
you must arrange for the payment to be made by another method

Please check your account statement to verify that the amounts debited from your account are correct.

Dispute

If you believe that there has been an error in debiting your account you should call us on 1800 047 703 and confirm the details in writing with us as soon as possible so that we can resolve your query quickly.

Accounts

You should check:

with your financial institution whether direct debiting is available from your accounts offered by financial
your account details which you have provided to us are correct by checking them against a recent account statement; and
with your financial institution before completing the direct debit request if you have any queries about how to complete the direct debit

Warning: if the account number you have quoted is incorrect, you may be charged a fee to reimburse our costs in correcting any deductions from:

an account you do not have authority to operate; or
an account you do not

Confidentiality

We will keep any information (including your account details) in your direct debit request confidential.

We will make reasonable efforts to keep any such information that we have about you secure and to ensure that any of our employees or agents who have access to information about you, do not make any unauthorised use, modification, reproduction or disclosure of that information.

However, we may use your contact details to provide information about the fund. Should you wish this not to be the case, please advise the fund in writing.

Our diocesan logo is theologically rich and very succinct. As a hand, it depicts our mission as a diocese and as individuals within the diocese, of bearing (bringing, carrying) Christ’s love to one another and to the world around us. In this, we are the hand of Jesus Christ, and we are offering ourselves to him so that he might work through us.

We can be the bearers of his love only as a response to his call and in the strength of his grace. We are reminded of this in two ways—through the symbol of the dove (the Holy Spirit) also present in the logo, and by the incorporation of the cross that segments the logo. The presence of the cross is a reminder that bearing the love of Christ will inevitably cost us if we live it authentically. However, in the way that the Cross is the portent of redemption and life—an echo of the tree of life in the book of Genesis—so becoming bearers of the love of Christ will also bring us to life.

The four fingers of the hand also represent the four regions of our diocese. The first is blue representing the beautiful water of the Shoalhaven. The second is a blue and green combination representing the waters and escarpment of the Illawarra. The third is green depicting the hills and plains of the Macarthur. The fourth is dark green illustrating the forests of the Southern Highlands.