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Festival to offer pilgrims workshops, plenaries and prayer experiences
Australian Catholic Youth Festival organisers say the event will features a mix of favourites and new elements for pilgrims. Source: Melbourne Catholic.
Maronite centre ‘affirms that every life is worthy’
The Teresa Centre, an emerging ministry of MaroniteCare, hosted a luncheon in Sydney last week, celebrating the centre’s mission to support women navigating postnatal challenges, unexpected pregnancies and parenting with compassion and dignity. Source: Maronite Eparchy.
Catholics invited to contribute to spiritual bouquet
Pope Leo XIV will celebrate his 70th birthday on Sunday, September 14, and to mark this occasion, Catholics are invited to contribute to a spiritual bouquet and pray for the Pope and his intentions. Source: OSV News.
Feast days set for new saints
The Catholic Church will commemorate the liturgical memorial of St Carlo Acutis on October 12 and of St Pier Giorgio Frassati on July 4. Source: CNA.
Cardinal to celebrate Latin Mass in St Peter’s Basilica
United States Cardinal Raymond Burke will celebrate a special Traditional Latin Mass in St Peter’s Basilica on October 25 in a return to a prior custom, suspended since 2022, of an annual pilgrimage of Catholics devoted to the Latin Mass. Source: National Catholic Register.
Labor warned deportation laws weren’t sufficiently justified
A Labor-majority Senate committee raised concerns about new laws that do away with the obligation to provide non-citizens facing deportation to Nauru procedural fairness, in a report tabled hours after the legislation passed Parliament. Source: ABC News.
Archbishop Coleridge faces retirement with ‘mixed feelings’
Archbishop Mark Coleridge says he faces his retirement on Thursday with “very mixed feelings” of loss, anticipation and what he calls the “sneaky working of grace”. Source: The Catholic Leader.
Sydney clergy learn how to respond to domestic violence
Sydney archdiocesan clergy gathered at Waterview in Bicentennial Park on August 28 for a conference on safeguarding families from domestic violence. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
Pope interviewed ahead of new biography
Pope Leo XIV has given his first one-on-one interview to Crux senior correspondent Elise Ann Allen as part of her new biography of the pontiff. Source: Crux.