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Stan Grant to deliver 2025 Simone Weil Lecture
Journalist, public intellectual and proud Wiradjuri man Stan Grant, will deliver the 2025 Simone Weil Lecture in Human Value, exploring the possibility of a language of the soul in an increasingly disjointed world. Source: ACU.
Top end community celebrates 90th anniversary of first Mass
The Wadeye Indigenous community in the Northern Territory gathered in gratitude and joy to mark the 90th anniversary of the first Mass celebrated at “Werntekngnanyi” (Old Mission). Source: Darwin Diocese.
Children bear ‘heaviest toll’ in global conflicts, Vatican diplomat tells UN
Children are among those who bear “the heaviest toll” in the global rise of armed conflict and “the increasing acceptance of force as a means of resolving disputes,” a Vatican diplomat has told the United Nations. Source: OSV News.
Bishops in the Global South call for end to fossil fuels
The Catholic Church across the Global South has sounded the alarm on climate change, calling for the end of fossil fuels while urging nations to avoid false “green” solutions that perpetuate exploitation of natural resources, ecosystems and people. Source: NCR Online.
Syro-Malabar Church resolves decades-long liturgy dispute
The Syro-Malabar Church has announced a resolution to a decades-long liturgy dispute in the Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly in India. Source: The Tablet.
Archbishop Fisher given Vatican role
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP to the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
Stella Maris launches appeal for seafarers
On Sea Sunday, July 13, Catholics across Australia are called to support seafarers, who, despite being among the least visible people in the world, make significant contributions to daily life. Source: Stella Maris.
Pope deplores use of hunger as a weapon of war
Pope Leo XIV has deplored the use of hunger as a “weapon of war” and called for measures to be taken to ensure food security for the world’s poor. Source: CNA.
First Nations scholarship winners head to Rome
First Nations students Drew Campbell and Jacob Lasserre are preparing for their first visit to the Eternal City after winning Australian Catholic University’s prestigious Francis Xavier Conaci Scholarship.