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Global study finds Australian teachers the second-most stressed in the world
Australia has the second-most stressed teachers in the world, plagued by administrative red tape, marking and lesson planning, a new global study has found. Source: The Advertiser.
Diocese workshops teaching people of all ages to make rosaries
With October being the month dedicated to the Holy Rosary, Parramatta Diocese has launched a new initiative to teach people of all ages how to make rosaries. Source: Catholic Outlook.
Pope Leo’s first papal trip will be to Türkiye and Lebanon
The Vatican yesterday confirmed Pope Leo XIV’s first papal trip will be to Türkiye and Lebanon at the end of November and beginning of December, a trip that could have significant implications for his agenda on Gaza. Source: Crux.
Top Vatican official prays for end to ‘perverse spiral of hatred’ in Israel-Gaza war
The Hamas attack on Israel two years ago “was inhuman and indefensible”, the Vatican Secretary of State said this week, and Israel’s two-year-long war on Gaza has had “disastrous and inhuman consequences”. Source: NCR Online.
At least 36 dead and 200 injured after scaffolding in Ethiopian church collapses
Catholic bishops in Ethiopia expressed deep sorrow and solidarity after the collapse of wooden scaffolding in an Ethiopian Orthodox church in the north of the country that left at least 36 people dead and 200 injured. Source: OSV News.
Cardinal Pizzaballa welcomes Gaza ceasefire talks as ‘first step’
As indirect ceasefire talks began in Egypt between Israel and Hamas overnight in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem lauded it as an “important and long-awaited first step”. Source: Catholic Review.
Choose between serving God or serving money: Pope
On the feast of St Francis of Assisi, Pope Leo XIV signed his first apostolic exhortation, on the topic of poverty, and held a special audience for pilgrims attending the Jubilee of Migrants and the Jubilee of the Missions. Source: CNS.
Victorian MPs call for end to abortion ban at public, Catholic-run hospitals
Victoria’s public, Catholic-run hospitals would lose their ability to object to providing abortion and contraception services at their facilities under a new crossbench proposal. Source: Herald Sun.
Archbishop O’Regan calls on Adelaide faithful to pray for synod
The last two weekends in September were unusual for Archbishop Patrick O’Regan, who was seen and heard, simultaneously, in the majority of parishes across the Adelaide Archdiocese. Source: The Southern Cross.