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Reconciliation experts say truth-telling a key to healing
Alfredo Barahona has a message to Australian Catholics as the Church navigates a path of reconciliation with First Nations peoples: Let’s practise what we preach. Source: The Catholic Leader.
Law reforms to reflect changes to fundraising environment
The first steps have been taken to fix Australia’s outdated fundraising laws, with a nationally-consistent framework possible by the end of the year. Source: Pro Bono News.
Pope prays for victims of ‘horrific’ Thailand attack
Pope Francis said he was “deeply saddened” after hearing the news of one of the world’s worst mass shootings at a day-care centre in northeast Thailand. Source: Crux.
Bishop urges action to save millions of lives in Tigray
Marking 700 days of war in Ethiopia’s region of Tigray, a local Catholic bishop restated his call to the local and international community to save millions of people. Source: CNS.
Synodality top of agenda for Pope, Archbishop Costelloe
The Fifth Plenary Council of Australia and the global Synod on Synodality were key discussion points for Australian Catholic Bishops Conference president Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB and Pope Francis when they met last week.
Labor reaffirms plan for religious freedom laws
NSW Labor Senator Deborah O’Neill has reaffirmed the Albanese Government’s commitment to introducing laws in the current Parliament allowing religious schools to preference hiring people of that same faith. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
Refusal to help migrants is sinful, criminal: Pope
The refusal to help desperate migrants “is revolting, it’s sinful, it’s criminal”, Pope Francis said as he canonised a bishop dedicated to assisting migrants and a Salesian brother who emigrated with his family to Argentina. Source: CNS.
Pro-abortionists gatecrash March for the Babies rally
Abortion protests from both sides of the debate were prevented from clashing in Melbourne on Saturday, with police removing abortion rights supporters who infiltrated the annual pro-life March for the Babies rally. Source: SBS News.
Maronite Eparchy ordains two priests
The Maronite Eparchy has two new priests, with Bishop Antoine-Charbel Tarabay ordaining Fathers Joseph-Awtel Maroon and Robert-Pio Albayeh at Our Lady of Lebanon Co-Cathedral in Harris Park in Sydney’s west.