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Winemaker reveals secrets to success in business and faith

Tim Kirk, the chief executive of multi-award-winning Australian winery Clonakilla, has encouraged Sydney’s Catholic youth to envisage how faith and business can work together to inform their lives. Source: The Catholic Weekly. 

Prayer

Rosary Online celebrates third anniversary

Amid COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions, the Canberra-Goulburn Archdiocese launched The Rosary Online using the Zoom website platform and it is still going strong. Source: Catholic Voice.

Human Rights

Commonwealth leaders agree on ‘reparatory justice’ for slavery

Commonwealth leaders have agreed “the time has come” for a conversation about making amends for slavery. Source: ABC News.

Climate

Church groups commit to biodiversity at COP16

The Vatican and other Catholic groups sent representatives to join the 23,000 delegates at the UN Biodiversity Conference in Colombia. Source: The Tablet.

Pope Francis

We all need to open ourselves to Christ’s infinite love: Pope

A world that has become “heartless” and indifferent to greed and war, and a Church in need of revitalising its missionary joy must open themselves up to Christ’s infinite love, Pope Francis says in his new encyclical. Source: CNS.

Bishops Vatican

Archbishop Costelloe elected to Synod Council

Australian Catholic Bishops Conference President Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has been elected to the Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod. Source: ACBC Media Blog.

Politics Social media

Human Rights Commissioner warns Labor not to rush social media laws

Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner has raised concerns about Labor’s crackdown on digital platforms, warning that rushed laws to impose minimum age limits on social media could cause more harm than intended. Source: Canberra Times.

Safeguarding

Diocese welcomes publication of first external audit report

Broken Bay Diocese has welcomed the publication of its first external audit report against the National Catholic Safeguarding Standards. Source: Broken Bay News.

Middle East

Caritas Lebanon delivers 130,000 hot meals in four days

Caritas Australia’s partners in Lebanon have given an update on the charity’s assistance in the beleaguered country, with more than 130,000 hot meals delivered in four days to people in need.