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For The Diary HIgher Education

College’s day of fun, food and fundraising

Catholic liberal arts college Campion College is holding its inaugural festival, a student-driven event aimed at raising money for the Campion College Scholarship Fund.

Agriculture

UK Catholics call on World Bank to protect farmers from agribusiness giants

More than 70,000 English and Welsh Catholics, including 18 bishops, are calling on the World Bank to protect the right to seeds for farmers around the world. Source: Crux.

Arts and Entertainment

Catholics in Norway hail Nobel Prize for writer-convert

Church leaders in Norway have welcomed the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to Jon Fosse, a Catholic convert, predicting the honour could raise Catholicism’s profile in the traditionally Protestant country. Source: OSV News.

Middle East Prayer Synod

Synod members from around the world unite to pray for peace

Synod participants who have known war and conflict firsthand led the assembly of the Synod of Bishops yesterday by praying for peace between Israel and Palestine, throughout the Middle East and across the globe. Source: CNS.

First Nations Politics

Campaigns make final sprint on eve of Voice vote

The Yes and No camps are gearing up for the final full day of campaigning before Australians cast their votes tomorrow on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum. Source: Canberra Times.

In The Dioceses Synodality

Perth hosts formation day ahead of archdiocesan assembly

Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has asked Perth’s Catholics how they can strengthen and deepen their identity as a Christian community. Source: The eRecord.

Immigration People

Ugandan family reunited after six long years of separation

Six agonising years of separation have ended for Catholic couple Morris Mukasa and Teddy Nakalembe with the safe arrival of their children in Sydney. Source: The Catholic Weekly.

Ecology In The Dioceses

Archdiocese marks ecumenical Season of Creation 

Canberra-Goulburn Archdiocese marked the ecumenical Season of Creation with an inaugural “integral ecology” online pilgrimage. Source: Catholic Voice.

Media Vatican

Vatican correspondent and Pope Francis expert coming to Australia 

Catholic journalist Christopher White, an expert on Pope Francis, is coming to Australia for a series of events in Parramatta, Sydney and Melbourne. Source: Catholic Outlook.