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Grim warning for workers with inflation set to hit a three-year high
Inflation is set to reach a three-year high, with warnings that the Australian economy could be in the grip of stagflation, driving more than 100,000 people out of work within months. Source: The Age.
Visiting archbishop’s three steps to a more inclusive Church
The Church must celebrate and make room for difference and diversity in its ranks if it is to continue to affirm a central teaching of the Gospel, a visiting archbishop from the western Pacific has told a Parramatta audience. Source: Catholic Outlook.
New NDIS eligibility tool will be ‘relatively blind’ to diagnoses
Health and Disability Minister Mark Butler says a person’s diagnosis will play almost no part in determining whether they qualify for access to the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Source: SMH.
Archbishop blesses new classical education college
Brisbane Archbishop Shane Mackinlay blessed students, staff, families, supporters and founders of the newly opened St John Henry Newman College, Tarragindi, at an opening Mass yesterday. Source: The Catholic Leader.
Good Sams bid farewell after more than a century of service
The Canberra-Goulburn Archdiocese has honoured the Good Samaritan Sisters, marking the conclusion of more than a century of service with a farewell on Good Shepherd Sunday. Source: Catholic Voice.
New book brings 50 years of journal’s theology to new audience
Catholic theologian Tracy Rowland’s latest book, Introducing Communio Theology, was launched in Melbourne on April 23. Source: Melbourne Catholic.
Pope visits Holy See’s ‘diplomat school’
Pope Leo XIV has outlined the qualities needed in priests who serve as Vatican diplomats, describing their work as a unique ministry that serves not only Catholics but also the entire human family in individual nations and international organisations. Source: EWTN News.
Church in Germany defends blessings document
Church leaders in Germany have defended a document on blessings for couples in “irregular” situations after Pope Leo XIV appeared to criticise it. Source: The Tablet.
Jerusalem is called to heal the world’s wounds: Latin Patriarch
How should Christians live in the midst of the conflict afflicting the Holy Land? That question is at the heart of a new pastoral letter from the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa. Source: Vatican News.