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Sydney Catholic Schools team up with top soccer club
The Western Sydney Wanderers and Sydney Catholic Schools are launching a new partnership to provide students with a range of programs and services to enhance their football skills. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
Cardinal Sako returns to Baghdad after ‘painful’ exile
The head of the Chaldean Catholic Church celebrated Mass in Baghdad on Friday for the first time in nine months, following a period of self-imposed exile from the Iraqi capital. Source: The Tablet.
Seek nature to counter polluting lifestyles: Pope
Humanity must have more direct contact with nature to counter the modern lifestyles that are destroying the planet, Pope Francis said on Saturday. Source: CNS.
Vatican lodges complaint over French court case
In response to a decision by a French court to award damages to a nun dismissed from her religious order after 34 years of service, the Vatican has lodged a formal protest with the French embassy to the Holy See complaining of violations of religious freedom. Source: Crux.
Eastertide joy turns to tears as Sydney mourns victims of knife attack
The joy of Eastertide has turned to shock and bewilderment across Sydney’s Catholic community in the wake of a deadly knife attack at Bondi Junction Westfield shopping centre, in which seven people died and a dozen were injured. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
Vatican confirms Pope to visit Oceania and Asia
Pope Francis will visit Papua New Guinea and three countries in Asia in September, the Vatican announced on Friday. Source: Crux.
Albanese urged to ignore review of discrimination at religious schools
Religious leaders and the Coalition are urging Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to ignore a report the Government commissioned into reducing discrimination at faith-based schools. Source: The Australian.
New precinct aims to give Bendigo a boost
Sandhurst Diocese has submitted plans to rejuvenate the church-owned land adjacent to Sacred Heart Cathedral in Bendigo.
Pilgrimage to Holy land showed the best way forward
Ten years ago, 12 of us, four Jews, four Christians and four Muslims, men and women, went on a pilgrimage, led by a rabbi, a Catholic priest and an Imam, writes Fr John Dupuche. Source: The Age.