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Music

Church’s attitude towards young musicians ‘needs to change’

Steven C Warner forged a successful sacred music career in the years following Vatican II, but the longtime choir director and composer suspects job opportunities for today’s young musicians are severely lacking. Source: ACU.

Vatican

For second time in a month, weapons detected at a papal event

A priest from the Czech Republic was detained Sunday before Pope Francis’ Angelus address in St Peter’s Square after being found to have an air gun, two knives, a box cutter and a screwdriver in his bag. Source: Crux.

Art

Lost Caravaggio artwork to be unveiled in Spain’s Prado museum

Spain’s Prado Museum will unveil a work by Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio that was considered lost for centuries. Source: ABC News.

Sport

Rome to host international conference on sport and spirituality

Some 200 participants will gather in Rome next week for an international conference on sport and spirituality organised by the Vatican and the French embassy to the Holy See ahead of the Paris Olympic Games. Source: Vatican News.

Queensland Religious Freedom

Proposed changes to Queensland act would  ‘betray’ faith communities

Proposed changes to the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Act would be a “betrayal of all faith communities” in the state, an open letter from Queensland Churches Together warns. Source: The Catholic Leader.

Bishops Leadership

Australian Catholic Bishops Conference elects new vice president

The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has a new vice president after elections in Sydney. Source: ACBC Media Blog.

Eastern Rite Saints

Sydney to have world’s second shrine dedicated to St Charbel 

St Charbel is the saint with more than 40,000 known miracles attributed to his intercession. And soon, Sydney’s south west will be home to only the second shrine in the world dedicated to him. Source: Daily Telegraph.

Cost Of Living HIgher Education

Labor wipes out $3 billion of student debt

More than three million Australians will have their student debt wiped in a bid to win over younger voters who have been crushed by the cost-of-living crisis. Source: SBS News.

Families Prayer

A mother’s love: generations gather for inaugural conference

Mothers, grandmothers, religious and clergy gathered in Melbourne for the first Mothers Who Pray for Their Children conference in Australia. Source: Melbourne Catholic.