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Catholic Mission calls for parish support for refugee families program
- . 23 June 2023
This Refugee Week, Catholic Mission is inviting parishes to take action and open their hearts and arms to sponsor refugee families to help them to settle into their new life in Australia.
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Convicted paedophile pleads guilty to another offence
- . 23 June 2023
One of Australia’s worst paedophile priests, Gerald Ridsdale, has pleaded guilty to another historical sexual crime after a 72nd victim came forward. Source: The Australian.
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Francis advances sainthood cause of Fatima visionary
- . 23 June 2023
Pope Francis has advanced the sainthood cause of Sr Lucia dos Santos, the eldest child to witness the 1917 Fatima apparitions. Source: CNA.
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Pope Francis sends new cargo of humanitarian aid to Ukraine
- . 23 June 2023
Pope Francis is sending his Apostolic Almoner, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, to Ukraine on his sixth humanitarian mission to bring closeness and a cargo of humanitarian aid. Source: Vatican News.
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Pope appoints bishop for New Zealand diocese
- . 23 June 2023
Pope Francis has appointed Christchurch priest Fr John Adams as the new bishop of New Zealand’s Palmerston North Diocese. Source: NZCBC.
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Movie set in Paris taxi a delightful ride
- . 23 June 2023
In Driving Madeleine (Une Belle Course), a seemingly simple taxi ride across Paris evolves into a profound meditation on the realities of the driver, whose personal life is in shambles, and his fare, an elderly woman whose warmth belies her shocking past. Source: Australian Catholics.
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Church leaders in Australia welcome Synod working document
- . 22 June 2023
As the Church approaches the first session of the forthcoming Synod of Bishops, Australian Catholics are being encouraged to continue their engagement with the global synodal journey through prayer, ongoing discernment and local conversations. Source: ACBC Media Blog.
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Archbishop Costelloe says WA’s changes to abortion law ‘distressing’
- . 22 June 2023
Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB says moves by the West Australian Government to make access to abortion easier will be “distressing” for many people. Source: Perth Archdiocese.
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Albanese seeks to place legal limits on Voice
- . 22 June 2023
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is seeking to place limits on the scope of the Voice to Parliament and executive government by assuring Australians its remit would be restricted to issues that “specifically or differently” affect Aboriginal people. Source: The Australian.