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Leadership

Peak organisation elects new executive

The National Council of The Association of Ministerial Public Juridic Persons (AMPJP) has this week elected a new executive.

Cost Of Living Research

Gen Z Australians living with their parents in record numbers

Half of Australians in their 20s are still living with their parents, while a record share of lower-income families are suffering housing stress as the social and economic cost of the housing affordability crunch mounts. Source: Sydney Morning Herald.

Abuse crisis Papal Trip

Pope to hold private meeting with French abuse survivors 

During his four-day visit to France beginning tomorrow, Pope Leo XIV will meet privately with seven survivors of sexual abuse by priests and other Catholic personnel. Source: Crux Now.

North America

Canadian Catholics stand up for Jewish brethren

Canadian Catholic leaders have reiterated the right to freely worship “in safety and peace” after a gunman targeted an eastern Ontario synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in Judaism. Source: OSV News.

Holiday

CathNews takes Grand Final break

CathNews will not be published tomorrow due to Victoria’s Grand Final Eve public holiday. Our next issue will be published on Monday, September 28.

Artificial Intelligence Politics

Trump opposes Albanese’s tech agenda 

United States President Donald Trump has delivered a major blow to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s tech agenda by telling world leaders he would oppose a push to create an international body to oversee AI regulation. Source: The Australian.

New South Wales

Cut funding from program that denigrates Catholic beliefs: Archbishop Fisher 

Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP has called on the New South Wales Government to withdraw public funding from a controversial arts venture after it announced three events at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Source: The Catholic Weekly.

Charity Poverty

Vinnies sees spike in requests for food assistance

More than half of Australians are buying less food than they would like because of rising grocery costs, according to new YouGov research commissioned by the St Vincent de Paul Society NSW.

Bishops Books

Archbishop Coleridge’s autobiography a ‘personal, spiritual, historic journey’

Many faces and names from the life and ministry of Archbishop Emeritus Mark Coleridge welcomed the launch of his autobiography, A Strange Way Home, at Australian Catholic University in Brisbane. Source: The Catholic Leader.