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Education Religious

Trial program gets positive response from students

High school students who participated in an alternative religious education program that prioritised dialogue and access to media and technology found talking about religion more personally valuable than formally studying it, new Australian Catholic University research has found.

Appointment Vocations

New seminary vice-rector ‘humbled’ by appointment

Broken Bay Diocese’s vocations director has been appointed vice-rector and director of pastoral formation at the Seminary of the Good Shepherd, Homebush.

Crime

Vandals attack statues at Albury churches

Religious statues have been decapitated and a painting of Jesus defaced in separate attacks on two churches in the heart of Albury. Source: Herald Sun.

Gambling New South Wales

Labor leader says reforming industry a gamble without cashless card trial

New South Wales Labor leader Chris Minns says he is prepared to reform the state’s lucrative gambling sector but only after the impact on the industry is fully calculated. Source: Sydney Morning Herald.

Superannuation

Superannuation merger deal will create $115 billion fund

UniSuper and Australian Catholic Superannuation Retirement Fund have finalised a merger deal that will create a $115 billion fund with more than 620,000 members. Source: Daily Telegraph.

Catechesis Pope Francis

Freedom found in offering God what is hardest to give up, Pope says

Pope Francis spoke yesterday about how freeing it can be for people to let go of the things that they are most attached to in life and place them in God’s “benevolent hands”. Source: CNA.

Abortion United Kingdom

Primate condemns decision to ‘fast-track’ abortion in Northern Ireland

The Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland has attacked the British Government’s decision to “fast-track” the rollout of abortion services in Northern Ireland. Source: The Tablet.

Safeguarding

New national safeguarding standards include adults at risk

Australian Catholic Safeguarding Ltd has today launched the second edition of the National Catholic Safeguarding Standards, covering adults at risk as well as children.

Health

Put insurance premiums in hands of panel, says Catholic Health

Catholic Health Australia and the Australian Medical Association are calling for the Health Department and Health Minister Mark Butler to be stripped of their roles in approving health insurance premium rises. Source: Australian Financial Review.