Melbourne’s purpose-built quarantine hub could be used to house hundreds of refugees fleeing war-torn Afghanistan and Ukraine. Source: SBS News.
Vatican to release 40,000 wartime documents
24-Jun-2022
Thousands of records detailing requests made to the Vatican by Jewish people persecuted by the Nazis will be published online, the Vatican announced yesterday. Source: CNS.
Opening the World Meeting of Families at the Vatican, Pope Francis said that Catholic marriage is a gift, not just a formality or rule. Source: CNA.
As the Church today marks the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Pontifical Foundation Aid to the Church in Need will also celebrate “Benefactors Day”.
Kitchen serves up humour and humanity
24-Jun-2022
In The Kitchen Brigade (La Brigade), a sous chef facing financial difficulties accepts a job at a shelter for young migrants. At first she hates the job then her passion for cuisine starts to change children’s lives. Source: Jesuit Media.
Caritas responds quickly to Afghan earthquake
24-Jun-2022
Humanitarian organisations, including the global Caritas network, are responding to the Afghanistan earthquake, providing medicine, temporary shelter and emergency food distributions. Source: Caritas Australia.
Leaders of the Catholic Church in the Asia-Pacific region and the head of the National Council of Churches in Australia are among those who will serve as observers at the second assembly of the Plenary Council. Source: ACBC Media Blog.
West Australian artist takes home major prize
24-Jun-2022
An artwork created from wild silkworm cocoons has won the 2022 Mandorla Art Award, Australia’s most significant thematic Christian art prize. Source: The eRecord.
Catholics Walk with Christ after pandemic break
24-Jun-2022
More than 13,000 people took to Sydney’s streets on Sunday for the annual Walk with Christ Eucharistic procession. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
Abuse survivor seeks damages from Benedict XVI
23-Jun-2022
A sexual abuse survivor is reported to be suing retired Pope Benedict XVI in connection with the Munich abuse scandal. Source: CNS.
Health Minister Mark Butler will introduce legislation to deliver the Albanese Government’s aged care reforms as early as next month, delivering on its election promise to mandate 24/7 registered nurses by next July. Source: The Age.
Families meet ambassador on eve of Rome meeting
23-Jun-2022
The Australian delegation to the World Meeting of Families in Rome has met with the Australian ambassador to the Holy See, Chiara Porro, on the eve of the event. Source: ACBC Media Blog.
Jesuit priests shot dead in church in Mexico
23-Jun-2022
The Jesuits of Mexico have announced that two of their priests were killed on Monday inside a church in a mountainous region of Chihuahua state. Source: CNA.
Hard landing for refugees who arrive by plane
23-Jun-2022
A new book by Sr Aileen Crowe FMM argues that Australia’s refugee policies continually place the nation outside international law. Source: Franciscan Missionaries of Mary.
Archbishop Fisher addresses US bishops’ assembly
23-Jun-2022
“If the Church is meant to be a foundation of unity for humanity, we bishops are meant to be that for the Church,” Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP has told the United States bishops during their spring retreat. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
Pope prays for victims of Afghan earthquake
23-Jun-2022
Pope Francis said he is praying for those who have lost their lives in an earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan in the early hours of yesterday, killing more than 1000 people and injuring 1500 others. Source: Vatican News.
Melbourne’s Catholic and Anglican dioceses will celebrate the 175th anniversary of their founding with a new Mass setting to be launched at St Patrick’s Cathedral and St Paul’s Anglican Cathedral on Sunday. Source: Melbourne Catholic.
Despite last week’s decision by the Fair Work Commission to lift the national minimum wage by 5.2 per cent, millions of Australians will continue to live in poverty and on survival wages, Francis Sullivan writes. Source: Eureka Street.
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