More than $53 billion in new stimulus payments and funding for key services will be thrown at the economy to lock in the COVID-19 recovery, with a balanced Budget put off for at least another decade. Source: The Australian.
Catholic health and education agencies have welcomed Budget funding for aged care and disability as well as early childhood learning and support for gender equity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander girls.
Calling for formal recognition of “those lay men and women who feel called by virtue of their baptism to cooperate in the work of catechesis", Pope Francis has instituted the “ministry of catechist.” Source: CNS.
An international coalition of lay Christians, including Australian MP Kevin Andrews, has launched a campaign to support a global prayer effort focusing on the persecuted and repressed in China. Source: UCA News.
Refugees and asylum-seekers are being supplied with crucial medicines thanks to a collaboration between The Sisters of the Good Samaritan Foundation and Jesuit Refugee Service. Source: The Good Oil.
A Brisbane Mass centre that doubles as a sanctuary for the city's homeless and vulnerable has teamed up with a Catholic health care provider to introduce a regular visit by a registered nurse. Source: The Catholic Leader.
Catholic Health Australia members have raised $356,200 to help fight COVID-19 in Papua New Guinea, exceeding a fundraising goal of $250,000. Source: Caritas Australia.
Priests and pastoral workers in Germany have defied the Vatican by conducting blessing ceremonies attended by same-sex couples. Source: CNA.
The Vatican has announced the creation of a working group with the aim of excommunicating members of the mafia. Source: Vatican News.
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