Government and Opposition urged to prioritise Aged Care Act
Catholic Health Australia has joined other aged care provider peak bodies in supporting calls for both sides of federal Parliament to urgently prioritise the new Aged Care Act and address critical...
View ArticleVictorian barristers debate wearing legal robes at religious ceremonies
The Victorian Bar has debated whether judges and lawyers should stop wearing their robes and medals at special religious services to avoid any conflict of interest perceptions. Source: The Australian.
View ArticleBishops say action required to achieve global peace
In this year’s Social Justice Statement, Australia’s Catholic bishops say peace is possible if people commit to speaking the truth and redouble efforts to end war. Source: ACBC Media Blog.
View ArticleMarian visionary dies at 93 on feast of Assumption
A Japanese woman religious and Marian visionary has died some five decades after witnessing the miraculous weeping of a statue of Mary and receiving urgent messages to pray in reparation for humanity’s...
View ArticleNicaraguan government extinguishes legal status of religious orders
The Nicaraguan Government has extinguished the legal status of more than 25 Catholic organisations, including religious orders, another diocesan Caritas chapter and lay Catholic groups, as part of an...
View ArticleStudy shows nearly half of migrants worldwide are Christian
A new analysis by the Pew Research Centre has found that nearly half of the estimated 280 million people worldwide who live outside their country of birth are Christian, with migrants to the United...
View ArticleOne year until the Australian Catholic Education Conference in Cairns
The countdown is on for the 2025 Australian Catholic Education Conference hosted by the National Catholic Education Commission and host diocese, Catholic Education Diocese of Cairns.
View ArticleStudents burst into song for Vinnies
Schools across Sydney are bringing music to the streets of Parramatta as part of the annual “Busking for Vinnies” initiative. Source: St Vincent de Paul Society NSW.
View ArticleReopening of emergency department eases strain on Hobart hospital system
A Catholic private hospital in Hobart will reopen its emergency department 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with hopes it can ease some of the stress on the hospital system. Source: ABC News.
View ArticleUS Catholic scholar focuses on religious freedoms in Tim Fischer Oration
Religious freedoms were the focus of the second Tim Fischer Oration, with Helen Alvaré warning that society faces a threat “way worse than ignorance or mean-spiritedness – a seeming rejection of reason...
View ArticleSelf-funded retirees to pay more for aged care services
Self-funded retirees will be asked to pay more out of their own savings for their aged care under a deal set to be struck between Labor and the Coalition. Source: The Australian.
View ArticleNext step taken in Eileen O’Connor’s journey to sainthood
Eileen O’Connor’s path to sainthood is now in God’s hands (and the care of the Vatican) after Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP formally concluded the diocesan phase of the canonisation cause....
View ArticleUkrainian parliament approves ban on Russian-limed churches
Ukraine’s parliament had adopted a law restricting religious organisations affiliated or connected with Russia. Source: The Tablet.
View ArticleSpread the fragrance of holiness in the Church and the world: Pope
A person who lives with the joy of their anointing in the sacrament of Confirmation cannot help but spread the fragrance of holiness in the Church and the world, Pope Francis said yesterday. Source: CNA.
View ArticleNotre Dame Cathedral strikes gold with donation of Olympic bell
The bronze bell used for track and field competitions during the Paris Olympic Games will ring during every Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral when it reopens in December. Source: NCR Online.
View ArticleWelcome Walk to show support for asylum-seekers
Brisbane Catholics are tying up their shoelaces for the Romero Centre’s annual Welcome Walk on Sunday. Source: The Catholic Leader.
View ArticleImmersion program aims to help deliver better Catholic education
An intensive three-day immersion program in Broken Bay Diocese has provided national and state Catholic education leaders the opportunity to see first-hand, innovative developments in student teaching...
View ArticleAustralia must take gendered violence ‘as seriously as it takes terrorism’
The enormous task of ending gendered violence in this generation has been laid bare in the first annual update on the progress of the National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children. Source:...
View ArticleGeraldton holds its first Synod assembly
History is being made this week as people throughout the Geraldton Diocese in Western Australia gather for the diocese’s first Synod assembly.
View ArticleTake politics out of religious discrimination reform
With Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirming he will not follow through on his election commitment to introduce a religious discrimination bill, is the reform effort to die with a whimper, asks Mark...
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