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Emmanuel City Mission sees surge in demand
More people are seeing their budgets slip into the red with rises in rent, fuel and power bills, and the staff at Brisbane’s Emmanuel City Mission are seeing more newcomers through their door. Source: The Catholic Leader.
Catholics need better liturgical formation, says Vatican official
Catholics need to know what their words and gestures at Mass signify and evoke, a liturgical expert says. Source: OSV News.
UK studies claim religion may have helped during COVID-19
Religious people may have coped better during the coronavirus pandemic than those without a spiritual faith, researchers from the United Kingdom have claimed. Source: BBC News.
Pope extends policy of detente with China
Several significant developments for the Catholic Church in China have occurred this week, including a bishop’s appointment and the establishment of a new diocese on the mainland for the first time since Mao’s Communist revolution. Source: Crux.
Archbishop Prowse declares euthanasia bill ‘not acceptable’
Canberra-Goulburn Archbishop Christopher Prowse has told a public hearing into the ACT’s proposed voluntary euthanasia laws that the bill had a “narrow understanding” of conscientious objection. Source: Canberra Times.
Francis to visit Papua New Guinea in August
Federation of Catholic Bishops Conferences of Oceania president Bishop Anthony Randazzo has welcomed the news that Pope Francis will visit Papua New Guinea in August. Source: ACBC Media Blog.
New strategy aims to deliver more disability programs outside scheme
Critical work to take financial pressure off the $42 billion National Disability Insurance Scheme will begin with a new federally funded strategy to develop and deliver more disability programs outside the scheme. Source: The Australian.
St John of God Health Care to build new hospital in Perth
St John of God Health Care is set to deliver a new standalone private hospital in Midland, the first of its kind for Perth’s eastern suburbs and the wider Wheatbelt region. Source: The eRecord.
Catholic schools offer fee relief as cost-of-living pressures increase
Cost-of-living pressures are front of mind for Catholic school principals as children return to school in Victoria this week, with Catholic Education Ballarat moving to reassure families experiencing genuine hardship that fee relief is available.