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The best in Catholic news from across the Archdiocese of Perth
Congo losing a generation to war, says bishops’ conference president
Congo is losing a generation to war over diamonds and other minerals in the country’s eastern regions, said the president of the nation’s bishops’ conference.
WA icon artist to be ordained for Ukrainians
Perth teacher Richard Charlwood will be ordained to the minor orders of Lector and Sub-deacon in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church at Maylands on June 23.
The suffering deserve our prayers, not our analysis, pope says
Those who suffer are brothers and sisters Catholics must pray for, not cases to be analyzed or examples to be used in debates, Pope Francis said in a morning homily.
CLINIC marks 25 years of helping immigrants through church agencies
Like it was yesterday, Vanna Slaughter pulls from memory the details of what was happening when Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc., known as CLINIC, was created — 25 years ago. When the U.S. Catholic bishops’ conference established CLINIC as a legal services adjunct to the more policy-focused Migration and Refugee Services, the immediate goal was to provide legal support to Catholic agencies that were assisting with a new immigration law that was helping millions of people legalize their status.
New e-hospital conquers distance case by case
A new e-learning hospital specially designed for students enrolled in The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Diploma of Nursing program was launched at the Broome Campus on May 13.
In Venezuela, shortages include bread for Communion, sacramental wine
In Venezuela, sporadic shortages of basic goods can turn a roll of toilet paper into a rare commodity; add bread and wine to the list of scarce products. Catholic leaders in the South American country have advised priests to conserve what supplies they have as they search for an alternative supply to ease the shortage.
Could domestic abuse ever be funny?
There are some subjects that are so sensitive, so important, they should never be joked about under any circumstances at all …
Vatican’s U.N. observer stresses need to eradicate world hunger
Finding a solution to the “ongoing scandal” of worldwide hunger should be a top priority, said the Vatican’s representative to the United Nations. Addressing a U.N. General Assembly meeting on sustainable development goals May 23, Archbishop Francis A. Chullikatt, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, called it “a shame that so many of the poor people in the world continue to find themselves helpless victims of chronic hunger.”
What still could be in Broadmeadows
After a billion dollars of subsidies in Australian taxpayer funds have flowed into the ongoing effort to sustain Ford Australia in the last 10 years, the company has announced, as almost everyone knows, that it will cease production of its motor vehicles in Australia by 2016. For the estimated 1,200 workers who will lose their jobs at the Geelong engine factory and Broadmeadows vehicle assembly facility, and the hundreds or thousands more in dependant industries, the news is crushing.
Eucharist nourishes, sustains and should transform people, pope says
In the Eucharist, Jesus makes himself the food that nourishes and sustains Catholics, even when the road gets rough, Pope Francis said before leading a Corpus Christi procession through the streets of Rome.
