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Independent MPs push to make housing a human right
Access to housing would be recognised as a human right, with the Commonwealth Government required to improve the country’s supply, under a new proposal put to Parliament. Source: Yahoo News.
Church ‘must place’ people with disabilities at centre of safeguarding efforts
To prevent abuse across the board, the Church must place people with disabilities at the centre of its safeguarding efforts and ministry, speakers said at an international safeguarding conference in Rome. Source: CNS.
Man arrested after acting suspiciously during Mass
Quick-thinking parishioners sought assistance after witnessing a man acting suspiciously during a Sunday evening Mass in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
Townsville’s Catholic community welcomes new priest
Townsville’s newest priest, Fr William Brennan, says he has a love for preaching the Word of God. Source: The Catholic Leader.
Consultor to the Vatican to visit Australia
Myriam Wijlens, a Dutch theologian, ecumenist and consultor to several Vatican bodies, will visit Australia in August to deliver public lectures on the topic “The prophetic voice of the laity in the renewal of the Catholic Church”. Source: Catholic Outlook.
Labor announces $23m aid package for Horn of Africa
The Albanese Government has announced a $23 million funding package to help deliver healthcare, food, and clean water amid ongoing humanitarian crises in the Horn of Africa. Source: Caritas Australia.
Pope blesses ambulance bound for Ukraine
Pope Francis blessed an ambulance filled with medicine and first-aid equipment that will travel almost 3000 kilometres from the Vatican to support those wounded in Ukraine. Source: OSV News.
After much speculation, Archbishop Gänswein given diplomatic role
Pope Francis has appointed Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the former private secretary to the late Pope Benedict XVI, to a diplomatic role in the Baltic states. Source: CNA.
Seafarers face injustice, exploitation, inequality: Cardinal Czerny
In a message for the international celebration of Sea Sunday, Cardinal Michael Czerny writes that seafarers experience the “boundless beauty” of the seas, as well as their “physical, spiritual, and social darkness”. Source: Vatican News.