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Legal battle looms as Calvary Health Care challenges hospital takeover
Calvary Health Care has told the ACT Supreme Court it plans to apply for an injunction to stop the Government from forcibly acquiring the Catholic-owned Calvary Public Hospital Bruce. Source: ABC News.
Pope receives Voice to Parliament message
Pope Francis has received a book advocating for a Voice to Parliament from long-time Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander advocate Fr Frank Brennan SJ. Source: The Australian.
Industrial umpire set to unveil minimum wage rise
Millions of Australians on award and minimum wages are set to find out how much more they will be paid with the Fair Work Commission’s decision due today. Source: Australian Financial Review.
‘Local boy’ first Filipino priest ordained in Top End in 30 years
Newly ordained Darwin priest Fr Andric Dean Tobias Taberdo wanted his first words in his priestly ministry to be “thanks to God who draws us together in a communion of love and, who in love, also called me to the priesthood”. Source: The Catholic Leader.
Catechist formation program a new chapter for Central Australia
A formation program to enable Indigenous catechists from the Arrernte and Walpiri people of Central Australia to hand on the faith in their culture is underway in Alice Springs, with the local parish embracing the opportunity. Source: In the Word.
Street poet says prayer the lynchpin of his creative life
Sydney street poet David Marsh has launched his seventh book, a memoir titled Redemption at Work: My life story, at St Canice’s Church in Elizabeth Bay. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
Profit-at-all-costs is not a good business model: Pope
Business leaders must fight the temptation to seek financial gain above all else and instead promote a “culture of encounter” that improves their balance sheet and the lives of their employees and communities at the same time, Pope Francis said yesterday. Source: NCR Online.
Cardinal asks Americans to forgo right to bear arms
Amid a mounting debate in the US over gun control, Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark has entered the fray with a different argument: That people should voluntarily forgo their Second Amendment right to bear arms, for the betterment of society. Source: Crux.
Outback noir lays out the racism faced by Indigenous Australians
Limbo is an Australian mystery thriller about a detective who arrives in an outback town to investigate the 20-year-old unsolved murder of an Indigenous woman. Source: Australian Catholics.