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Health

Catholic Medical Association holds first national conference

The Catholic Medical Association held its first national conference last week in Baulkham Hills in Sydney, Deacon Michael Tan reports. Source: Catholic Outlook.

Crime Cybercrime

‘Very kind man’ scams $29,000 from Brisbane’s Catholic Women’s League

A simple slip-up in awareness resulted in Brisbane’s Catholic Women’s League being scammed out of $29,000. Source: The Catholic Leader.

Mission

Catholic Mission network supports people of Myanmar

Catholic Mission and its missionary network is supporting people in Myanmar, who are still experiencing hardships since the 2021 military coup. 

Cost Of Living Youth

Young Australians have increasingly bleak social and economic outlook: Survey

Younger Australians feel particularly punished by cost-of-living pressures, a new survey shows, and have an increasingly bleak social and economic outlook. Source: ABC News.

Vatican

Vatican reaffirms that Catholics cannot be Freemasons

The Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith has reaffirmed that Catholics are forbidden from becoming Freemasons. Source: CNA. 

Pope Francis

First people who need to be evangelised are Christians: Pope

Often enough, the first people who need to be evangelised are Christians themselves, Pope Francis said yesterday. Source: NCR Online. 

Africa United Kingdom

UK Catholic charities welcome court ruling against refugee transfer plan

Catholic charities in the United Kingdom are among those who have welcomed yesterday’s Supreme Court decision against the British Government’s plans to transfer people seeking asylum to Rwanda. Source: The Tablet.

Bishops Synod

We have to live in synodal Church to understand it: Archbishop Costelloe

Reflecting on last month’s Synod on Synodality assembly, Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB described “being a synodal Church” as an experience that “we have to live in order to understand it”. Source: America Magazine.

Cost Of Living Social Cohesion

Social cohesion in Australia ‘under pressure and declining’

The belief that Australia is a “land of opportunity” is dissipating, with the nation’s social cohesion fraying under cost-of-living and housing affordability pressure, a new study finds. Source: The Australian.