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Health

Calvary chief reaffirms organisation’s commitment to ACT

As the sun rose over Calvary Public Hospital Bruce for the last time yesterday, Calvary’s ACT regional chief Ross Hawkins said despite the difficult time, the organisation’s commitment to the community would never falter. Source: Catholic Voice.

Bishops

Pope accepts resignation of Bishop Holohan

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bunbury Bishop Gerard Holohan, who led the regional West Australian diocese for more than 20 years. Source: Perth Archdiocese.

Appointment Vatican

Pope’s personal theologian to lead Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith

Pope Francis has named Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández, his longtime personal theologian and ghostwriter, to lead the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. Source: CNA.

Environment

CRA calls for legislation to end industry ‘greenwashing’

Catholic Religious Australia has lodged a submission to federal Parliament addressing “greenwashing” tactics employed by Australian industries that can mislead consumers attempting to consider a product’s environmental impact.

First Nations HIgher Education

Indigenous scholars heading to Rome

Aboriginal women Raylene Pennay and Tyahn Bell are preparing to represent their mob during NAIDOC Week in Rome as recipients of the 2023 Australian Catholic University Francis Xavier Conaci Scholarship. 

History In The Dioceses Interfaith

Queensland Holocaust museum to open in partnership with Brisbane Archdiocese

Queensland’s first Holocaust museum, in the heart of Brisbane’s Catholic cathedral precinct, was officially unveiled on Friday. Source: Brisbane Archdiocese.

Russia Vatican

Our churches must serve peace, Russian Orthodox leader tells cardinal

The Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches should join efforts to promote peace before threats of a “major global armed conflict”, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church told Pope Francis’ envoy, who is on a peace mission to Moscow. Source: CNS.

Legal Matters United States

Disgraced former cardinal ‘not competent’ to stand trial

Disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick is not competent to stand trial in Massachusetts on charges that he sexually abused a teenage boy nearly 50 years ago, according to a prosecution expert. Source: OSV News.

Africa

African Christian leaders warn of new genocide risks in Sudan

Church leaders representing various denominations in Africa have called on the African Union, governments and regional bodies to take immediate action to stop a “repetition of genocide” in Sudan’s Darfur region and “other war crimes and crimes against humanity”. Source: Crux.