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Adelaide service fears it will be forced to turn people away
Adelaide’s Hutt St Centre fears it will reach capacity and might be forced to turn people away within the next three years if more social housing does not become available. Source: The Southern Cross.
Faith and culture unite in Goulburn’s Marian Procession
Faith, colour and culture filled the streets of Goulburn on Sunday as hundreds gathered for the annual Ecumenical, Multicultural Marian Procession Mass and Youth Rally – a highlight of the Canberra-Goulburn Archdiocesan calendar. Source: Catholic Voice.
Pro-life rally demands end to sex-selective abortions in NSW
Pro-life supporters in Sydney turned out in force at New South Wales Parliament House to support a bill introduced by Libertarian MLC John Ruddick to ban sex-selective abortion in the state. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
Church leaders plead for end to Sudan’s ‘forgotten war’
As a paramilitary group announced the capture of el-Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state, Church leaders amplified calls for the protection of “forgotten” civilians trapped in the western Sudanese city. Source: OSV News.
Archbishop Gänswein echoes warning on ‘dictatorship of relativism’
Twenty years after then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger warned of a “dictatorship of relativism” on the eve of his election as Pope Benedict XVI, his former secretary, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, has echoed that warning. Source: CNA.
Replace war with reconciliation and prayer: Pope
Pope Leo XIV joined religious leaders in prayer at Rome’s Colosseum yesterday, calling for an end to war and a renewed commitment to reconciliation and prayer. Source: Vatican News.
Church reflects on 60 years since Nostra Aetate
The Bishops Commission for Christian Unity and Inter-religious Dialogue has published a booklet of reflections on Nostra Aetate to mark its 60th anniversary. Source: ACBC Media Blog.
Liberals divided on changes to voluntary assisted dying
New South Wales Opposition Leader Mark Speakman has backed a Liberal MLC’s push to change euthanasia laws, insisting it would be a reasonable compromise for aged care homes to move a terminally ill resident to another facility if they want to choose the timing of their death. Source: SMH.
Notre Dame lecturer helped make case for St John Henry Newman
University of Notre Dame Australia’s theology lecturer Shaun Blanchard was one of 20 scholars from around the world invited to write in support of St John Henry Newman being made a Doctor of the Church.