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Religious and political leaders break bread at interfaith breakfast
Australia’s political and religious leaders have broken bread inside Parliament House for the seventh ACU Interfaith Parliamentary Breakfast. Source: Australian Catholic University.
Holiness the measure of Synod proposals: Archbishop Fisher
Proposals from the Synod on Synodality can be judged by whether they call people to holiness, Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP writes in a pastoral letter published yesterday. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
Education chief denies Catholic schools are overfunded
National Catholic Education executive director Jacinta Collins says Catholic schools are not overfunded, after an independent report found the funding gap between public and non-government schools is widening.
Shorten flags autism changes, says NDIS ‘can’t be surrogate school system’
A diagnosis of autism is unlikely to be enough to guarantee future access to the National Disability Insurance Scheme as the federal Government prepares to clarify that individualised packages were designed only for Australians with profound disabilities. Source: The Age.
Notre Dame and trailblazer help women get down to business
The University of Notre Dame Australia is partnering with businesswoman Donny Walford to empower women by giving them the skills to make smart decisions with money and tools to climb the career ladder.
Diocese pulls out all stops to celebrate anniversary
An internationally acclaimed organist and members of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra have helped Parramatta Diocese celebrate the 125th anniversary of the pipe organ at St Patrick’s Cathedral. Source: Catholic Outlook.
New president of Pakistan Catholic Bishops’ Conference to pursue ‘justice and peace’
Vowing to pursue a program of “justice and peace”, the newly elected president of the Pakistan Catholic Bishops’ Conference says that the agenda will include speaking out against the country’s controversial blasphemy laws. Source: Crux.
Candidate who called Pope ‘filthy leftist’ wins Argentina’s presidential election
Javier Milei, who attacked Pope Francis as a “filthy leftist”, has overwhelmingly won Argentina’s presidential election on a radical libertarian platform of dollarising the economy and shrinking the state in a country beset by recurring economic crises and triple-digit inflation. Source: OSV News.
Vatican Museums expand access to necropolis
In the month Catholics traditionally honour the dead, the Vatican Museums opened a new entrance to an ancient necropolis where carved marble sarcophagi sit near open graves filled with bones. Source: CNS.