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Bishops Conference launches new website
- By Rebecca Comini
- . 10 November 2022
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has launched a new website – with the address catholic.au – bringing together the catholic.org.au and catholicaustralia.com.au websites. Source: ACBC Media Blog.
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Schools to roll out training to fight racism and gendered violence
- By Rebecca Comini
- . 10 November 2022
Programs to tackle “racism and gendered violence” will be delivered at Edmund Rice Education Australia’s Victorian schools to help address women’s safety and behavioural issues that have emerged at some campuses. Source: The Age.
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Queensland priest in the running for seniors gong
- By Rebecca Comini
- . 10 November 2022
Mount Isa priest Fr Mick Lowcock is in the running for the 2023 Queensland Senior Australian of the Year Award to be announced next week. Source: The Catholic Leader.
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Uluru Statement co-chairs want referendum ‘sooner rather than later’
- By Rebecca Comini
- . 10 November 2022
Uluru Statement from the Heart co-chair Pat Anderson has urged the Albanese Government to not waste “momentum” for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, calling for a referendum on the constitutional change sooner rather than later. Source: The Guardian.
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Program brings prisoners and their families together
- By Rebecca Comini
- . 10 November 2022
A CatholicCare Tasmania program is helping prisoners strengthen their relationships with their children and build positive connections with their families and communities. Source: Hobart Archdiocese.
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Benedict to mount legal defence over accusation of abuse cover-up
- By Rebecca Comini
- . 10 November 2022
Former Pope Benedict XVI plans to defend himself in a civil lawsuit lodged at a German court by a man who accuses him of helping to cover up historical abuse. Source: Sydney Morning Herald.
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No climate justice without land justice: African bishops
- By Rebecca Comini
- . 10 November 2022
As the United Nations climate change conference unfolds in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh, Catholic bishops in Africa are warning that there cannot be climate justice without land justice. Source: CNS.
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World leaders have ‘moral obligation’ to act on climate change
- By Rebecca Comini
- . 9 November 2022
Cardinal Pietro Parolin has told world leaders in Egypt for the United Nations climate summit that they have a “a moral obligation” to safeguard the planet and to offer aid to people suffering the “humanitarian impacts caused by climate change”. Source: CNS.
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Minister salutes Centacare and raises ‘one of the biggest issues’
- By Rebecca Comini
- . 9 November 2022
The urgent need to tackle generational poverty and disadvantage was highlighted by South Australian Human Services Minister Nat Cook at Centacare Catholic Family Service’s 80th anniversary. Source: The Southern Cross.