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Use technology but don’t let technology use you: Pope
While calling artificial intelligence a great novelty – “one of the rerum novarum, or ‘new things’, of our time” – Pope Leo XIV urged students to “not let technology use you”. Source: Crux.
Catholic sector welcomes start of Aged Care Act
Catholic Health Australia has welcomed the commencement of the new Aged Care Act this Saturday, describing it as a historic reform that will help deliver quality care to older Australians.
Victoria’s lower house passes major reforms to assisted dying
Major reforms to Victoria’s voluntary assisted dying laws – which would allow doctors to openly discuss the end-of-life option with terminally ill patients – have passed Parliament’s lower house. Source: Herald Sun.
Caritas Ukraine workers stay resilient ‘by living our mission’
Caritas Ukraine president Tetiana Stawnychy has met with Caritas Australia donors and staff, sharing firsthand insights into the organisation’s evolving humanitarian response amid the protracted war in Ukraine.
Wagga Wagga Diocese gets new head of education
Bishop Mark Edwards OMI has appointed Sandra Harvey as the new executive director of Catholic Education Diocese of Wagga Wagga.
Bright future on the horizon for homeless young parents
A new facility designed to provide safe housing and support for young parents, and their babies, who are homeless or at risk of homelessness has opened in Perth. Source: St John of God Health Care.
British Cardinal says King’s visit to Holy See ‘healed an ancient wound’
British Cardinal Vincent Nichols has expressed his thanks for King Charles III’s recognition of “the importance of faith in God in our shared quest for a true and compassionate human community”. Source: The Tablet.
Harvesting olives in Jerusalem ‘a form of prayer and reverence’
In October, monks and nuns are busy harvesting olives at the Mount of Olives and the Gethsemane garden — where, according to the Gospel, Jesus spent the last night before being taken up the other side of the valley into Jerusalem to be crucified. Source: NCR Online.
Gothic classic returns as a monstrously beautiful melodrama
Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro takes on a Gothic classic, bringing a new version of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” to the screen. Source: Australian Catholics.