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Appointment Mission

Catholic Mission appoints new director for Victoria and Tasmania

Catholic Mission will have a new director in Victoria and Tasmania after long-serving director Kevin Meese announced he will retire at the end of 2024. Source: Melbourne Catholic.

United States

Puerto Rico archbishop demands Trump apologise for racist joke at rally

A Puerto Rican archbishop has demanded an apology from US presidential candidate Donald Trump for what many have called a racist joke by a comedian at a Republican rally in New York. Source: Crux.

Europe

Irish Archbishop says Church must ensure next generation believes in God

The Primate of All Ireland says some Irish dioceses and parishes will not survive financially and while there is “pain in letting go” passing on the Faith is more important. Source: The Irish Catholic.

Africa

Gunmen kidnap rector from minor seminary in Nigeria

The rector of a minor seminary in the Nigerian state of Edo was abducted on Sunday, when gunmen attacked the seminary in the country’s embattled central southern region. Source: CNA.

Religious Orders Social Justice

Catholic Religious calls for national overhaul of youth justice system

Catholic Religious Australia called for a nationally coordinated reform of the youth justice system in a recent submission to a Senate Inquiry into Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system. 

Synod

Cardinals say Synod has given new life to ‘being Church’

Members of the Synod of Bishops experienced a new way of being Church and are committing to sharing it, said the two cardinals who guided its work. Source: Catholic Review.

HIgher Education Religious Freedom

Archbishop Comensoli defends de Bruyn after ACU walkout

Melbourne Archbishop Peter A Comensoli and Cardinal-designate Mykola Bychok have defended retired trade unionist Joe de Bruyn’s right to uphold Catholic teaching in his speech to Australian Catholic University graduates last week. Source: Melbourne Catholic.

Jubilee 2025

Pope to open Holy Door at Rome prison

Two days after opening the Holy Door of St Peter’s Basilica to inaugurate the Holy Year 2025, Pope Francis will travel to a Rome prison to open a Holy Door as a “tangible sign of the message of hope” for people in prisons around the world. Source: CNS.

Cost Of Living Politics

Chalmers says Labor won’t go on pre-election spending spree

Australians have been warned there will be no “free for all” of spending of public money ahead of the federal election to win over voters in the continuing cost-of-living crisis. Source: News.com.au.