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Pope elevates Australian-based Ukrainian bishop to world’s youngest cardinal
Pope Francis has elevated the Eparch of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Australia, Bishop Mykola Bychok, to the position of cardinal, during a ceremony at St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. Source: ABC News.
Bishop Norton will bring ‘enthusiasm and vision’ to the Broome Diocese
Australia’s Catholic bishops have welcomed the installation of the Bishop Tim Norton SVD as the third Bishop of Broome. Source: ACBC.
Broome-bound Bishop Norton farewelled at Brisbane Mass
Brisbane Cathedral parishioners, clergy, colleagues, friends and community members sent Broome Bishop-designate Tim Norton SVD with their blessings at a Mass in St Stephen’s Cathedral on Friday. Source: The Catholic Leader.
New bishops reflect ‘multicultural face of Church in Australia’
Pope Francis on Friday appointed Fr Thinh Nguyen and Fr Rene Ramirez RCJ new auxiliary bishops for the Melbourne Archdiocese. Source: ACBC Media Blog.
Bishop will be ‘a cardinal from Australia and for Australia’
Cardinal-designate Bishop Mykola Bychok has given a humble and uplifting address to the November plenary meeting of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference in Sydney.
Archbishop Costelloe elected to Synod Council
Australian Catholic Bishops Conference President Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has been elected to the Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod. Source: ACBC Media Blog.
Indonesian Catholics shocked by bishop’s decision to decline cardinalship
An Indonesian bishop’s decision to decline cardinalship has shocked Catholics in the Muslim-majority country. Source: UCA News.
Synod cannot reinvent the Catholic faith: Archbishop Fisher
We cannot “reinvent the Catholic faith” or “teach a different Catholicism in different countries”, Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP said in an interview this week. Source: CNA.
Bishop Gauci urges NT Government not to jail child offenders
Darwin Bishop Charles Gauci says the Northern Territory Government “must strive to find the best possible solutions” to youth crime without resorting to incarceration, as the Country Liberal Party seeks to lower the age of criminal responsibility to 10.