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Pope Leo XIV

Pope makes Vogue’s ‘best dressed’ list for 2025

Elected to the papacy just seven months ago, Pope Leo XIV is quickly making an impression in Hollywood and among the elite fashionistas of the world, making Vogue magazine’s best dressed list for 2025. Source: Crux.

Jubilee 2025

Pilgrimage brings together Rome’s tourism workers

About 400 people participated in a Jubilee of Tourism pilgrimage in Rome on Monday, celebrating the unique role the industry plays in supporting the faith and religious experience of millions of pilgrims and tourists. Source: CNA.

Research United States

Report reveals why some Americans leave their childhood faith

Americans who leave their childhood religion typically do so by age 30, with just under half saying they stopped believing their former religion’s teachings. Source: OSV News.

Terrorism

Pope prays for victims of Bondi Beach terrorist attack

Pope Leo XIV has condemned Sunday’s terrorist attack on the Jewish community at Bondi Beach, saying: “Enough with these forms of antisemitic violence! We must eradicate hatred from our hearts.” Source: NCR Online.

Gun Violence Politics

National Cabinet agrees unanimously to strengthen gun laws 

Only Australian citizens would be able to hold a firearm licence under stronger gun laws being considered by states and territories in the wake of the Bondi terror attack. Source: ABC News.

Queensland Seniors

Brisbane Archdiocese welcomes report calling for action on elder abuse

Elder abuse in Queensland has been exposed as a systemic failure requiring urgent and coordinated reform, with the final report of the state parliamentary inquiry affirming the seriousness, complexity and moral weight of the issue. Source: Brisbane Archdiocese.

Religious Orders

New monastery to be built for Carmelite nuns in southern NSW

A new monastery will be built for the Discalced Carmelite nuns of Mathoura, New South Wales, with Cardinal Mykola Bychok and Wilcannia-Forbes Bishop Columba Macbeth-Green set to break ground on the project next month. Source: The Catholic Weekly.

Music

Music the string that connects violinist to her Catholic faith

After the 2019 bushfires, the landscape around Bianca Porcheddu’s home in Malua Bay, New South Wales, was stripped bare. Not knowing what else to do, the professional violinist picked up her instrument and played Bach amongst the blackened trees. Source: Catholic Voice.

Health HIgher Education

Commonwealth initiative sees university expand medicine program 

The University of Notre Dame Australia has received an extra 10 Commonwealth-supported places for its Doctor of Medicine program, as part of the federal government’s initiative to increase the nation’s medical workforce.