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Carers Victoria

Carer funding at risk in Victorian Budget

Catholic disability and aged care organisation VMCH fears for the future of the vulnerable people it supports if funding is cut in the upcoming 2023-24 Victorian Budget.

Interfaith

Religious leaders recommit to interfaith harmony 

Senior religious representatives in South Australia have recommitted to interfaith harmony at four meetings hosted by the Adelaide Archdiocese. Source: The Southern Cross.

Charity Foreign Aid

Hundreds feared dead after cyclone hits Myanmar and Bangladesh

Caritas Australia’s partners in Myanmar and Bangladesh are coordinating with government and other aid organisations to provide emergency relief in the aftermath of Cyclone Mocha, which has killed at least 40 people with fears for hundreds more.

Abuse crisis

Abuse survivors cycle from Germany to Rome meet Pope

Pope Francis yesterday met briefly with a group of abuse survivors who undertook a bicycle pilgrimage from Germany to Rome to ask him to do everything in his power to heal and prevent abuses in the Church. Source: CNA.

Vatican

Vatican cooperates with new Rome probe of ‘Vatican Girl’ case

The Vatican is cooperating with a new inquest by the City of Rome into the 1983 disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, the teenage daughter of an employee of the Prefecture of the Papal Household whose family lived in a Vatican apartment. Source: Crux.

Europe

French priests issued with ID cards

The Church in France has begun issuing a new ID card proving a priest can administer the sacraments, to ensure tighter security amid continued revelations of sexual and spiritual abuse. Source: The Tablet.

Charity Leadership

Caritas Australia CEO elected vice president of Caritas Internationalis

Caritas Australia chief executive officer Kirsty Robertson is the new vice president of Caritas Internationalis and will serve the confederation of 162 national Caritas member organisations over the next four years.

Bishops

Archbishop Fisher sees ‘anti-life agenda’ in Calvary takeover bid

Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP has criticised the planned takeover of Canberra’s Calvary Public Hospital, accusing the ACT Government of an “extreme land-and-assets grab” in an attempt to implement an “anti-life agenda”. Source: The Australian.

World Youth Day

Australian pilgrims counting down to World Youth Day

More than 3000 Australian pilgrims will travel to Portugal for World Youth Day 2023, making it one of the largest Australian contingents to attend the gathering in its history. Source: ACBC Media Blog.