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Aged Care

Government warned hospital bed block up by 60 per cent

Hospital bed block has soared by 60 per cent in the past three years, new analysis from Catholic Health Australia has revealed. Source: The Australian.

Safeguarding

Lismore Diocese embeds safeguarding in its culture

Lismore Diocese has recently undertaken a safeguarding audit that has demonstrated a thoughtful approach to the care of its communities. Source: ACSL. 

Cost Of Living

Cost-of-living pressures top nation’s concerns in major survey

Australians are anxious about money and losing faith that things will get better, according to a major new survey of more than 15,000 Australians. Source: SBS News.

Architecture In The Dioceses

Perth columbarium ‘an almost perfect expression of architecture’

A columbarium at a Perth parish has won an award at the 2026 Western Australian Architecture Awards. Source: The Record.

Education Sport

Mural a smash hit with disadvantaged students

MacKillop Education’s Maidstone campus has unveiled a new mural honouring Australian tennis icon Evonne Goolagong Cawley in an initiative that brings together sport, culture and opportunity for young people in Melbourne’s west. Source: MacKillop Family Services.

Middle East United Nations

Holy See says UN agency an ‘essential lifeline’ in Gaza

The Holy See has reaffirmed its financial support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, describing the agency as an “essential lifeline” for millions of Palestinian refugees. Source: Vatican News.

Religious Orders

Benedictines launch 1500th anniversary initiative

Preparations have begun for the 1500th anniversary of the founding of Italy’s Monte Cassino, the mother abbey of Western monasticism established by St. Benedict in 529. Source: OSV News.

India

Churches join in prayer against restrictions on foreign donations

Christians in India of all denominations united in a day of prayer and fasting on Sunday, opposing a draconian bill to regulate foreign funding. Source: The Tablet.

Vatican

Pope pleads with SSPX to halt episcopal consecrations

Pope Leo XIV has issued a letter to the traditionalist Society of St Pius X asking it not to proceed with its planned episcopal consecrations today without papal approval. Source: EWTN News.