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Health issue forces Pope to deliver Sunday Angelus address via livestream
Pope Francis cancelled his audiences on Saturday and travelled to Rome’s Gemelli hospital to undergo a CT scan on his lungs in connection with flu-like symptoms. Source: Vatican News.
Questions remain over Labor’s poverty and welfare advisory body
A permanent statutory committee to advise the Albanese Government on ways to assist struggling Australians is set to happen, but independent ACT Senator David Pocock wants it to be strengthened while the Opposition has slammed it as “pointless”. Source: Canberra Times.
English teachers split on legitimacy of digital games as a learning tool
More than half of Australian high school English teachers believe digital games are a legitimate text type to use in their teaching programs, but just 15 per cent have done so, Australian Catholic University research shows.
Police blame ‘far-right hooligans’ for riot after Dublin stabbings
Police in Ireland have arrested 34 people following a riot in Dublin last week that erupted following a knife attack outside a Catholic primary school, leaving three children and a woman injured, two of them critically. Source: The Tablet.
Hugo’s inspiration for bishop in Les Misérables on the path to sainthood
The real bishop behind Victor Hugo’s famous Les Misérables character may be on the path to sainthood, with France’s bishops voting to open the diocesan process for his beatification. Source: OSV News.
African bishops call for priests, religious to be formed for digital evangelisation
An African bishop has warned that the Church on the continent must go digital if it wants to cope with what he described as a 21st-century “Babel mediascape with no gatekeepers”. Source: Crux.
Gaza ceasefire to begin tonight ahead of hostage release
Thirteen Israeli women and children will be released in the early hours of Saturday AEDT, the first of 50 to be freed over four days, in what the Vatican calls “a very important” step forward. Source: The Australian/Vatican News.
Church in Australia carrying forward its pursuit of synodality
One “particular grace” of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia has been its encouragement of many initiatives in the Church across the country, according to a letter to the People of God prepared for the Solemnity of Christ the King. Source: ACBC Media Blog.
Cathedral casts red glow in support of persecuted Christians
St Patrick’s Cathedral Melbourne was one of many buildings around the world to be lit up red on Wednesday as a large congregation showed prayerful solidarity with the millions of Christians persecuted for their faith. Source: Melbourne Catholic/Facebook.