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Diocesan synodal teams to ‘recollect’ ahead of 2028 assembly
Ahead of the 2028 ecclesial assembly for the Synod on Synodality, the Vatican has called on dioceses to provide an assessment of their implementation of synodality. Source: EWTN News.
Pope returns to Vatican after three-week rest
Pope Leo XIV has concluded his three-week summer break, leaving the Apostolic Palace in Castel Gandolfo to return to the Vatican last night. Source: Vatican News.
Radical plan to build up and force housing prices down
Australia’s sprawling suburbs of single-storey homes would be transformed under a Productivity Commission plan to make the property market affordable, with three-storey developments allowed everywhere and high-rise apartment blocks built near train, tram and bus stations. Source: Sydney Morning Herald.
‘Saint in sneakers’ relic tour draws thousands in Australia
From worshippers in city parishes to those from remote Indigenous communities, tens of thousands of Catholics around Australia are participating in four months of religious ceremonies dating back to the ancient catacombs of Rome, where the faithful venerated the relics of early martyrs and popes. Source: The Australian.
Parish Renewal Conference fires up faithful for mission
Nearly 400 faithful from across Australia gathered in Sydney for the Parish Renewal Conference, a day organisers hope will be remembered as the moment a new wave of evangelisation took hold in the Sydney Archdiocese. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
Fifty women who changed the course of Church history
Fifty women, some who were accused of disobedience but went on to change the course of the Church’s history, have been featured in a new book. Source: The Catholic Leader.
Plans unveiled for new Christchurch cathedral
Plans for Christchurch’s new Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament have been unveiled, 16 years after a major earthquake damaged the city’s Catholic cathedral. Source: Christchurch Diocese.
Bordeaux cathedral holds Mass for parishes closed by wildfires
St André Cathedral in Bordeaux, France, held Mass on Sunday for parishes that closed down because of the wildfires approaching the outskirts of the city. Source: The Tablet.
Pope urges young people not to be ‘couch potatoes’
Pope Leo XIV has urged young people not to be “couch potatoes” in a video message on Saturday, adding that the Church needs their missionary energy and “holy rebelliousness”. Source: OSV News.