Darwin Bishop Charles Gauci has last week apologised unreservedly to members of the Stolen Generation who were abused at the Garden Point Catholic Mission on the Tiwi more than 50 years ago.
The Eparch of the Maronites in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania Bishop Antoine-Charbel Tarabay, along with Eparch of the Melkites in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania Bishop Robert Rabbat issued a joint call for a National Reconciliation in Lebanon.
Bishop Delegate for Disability and Perth Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton has this week said International Day of People with Disability on 3 December is a chance for Catholic communities to celebrate the lives, achievements and contributions of 4.4 million Australians with a disability.
Bathurst Bishop Michael McKenna will deliver a free online public lecture titled ‘How Do We Know What We Don’t Know?’ on Wednesday 17 November 2021 at 5pm AEDT, to mark the 25th anniversary of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference’s (ACBC) commitment to pastoral research through the National Centre for Pastoral Research (NCPR).
Foundress of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith, known in Australia as Catholic Mission, Pauline Jaricot was declared Venerable on 25 February 1963, by Saint John XXIII. Her beatification will occur during year marking the 200th anniversary of the foundation of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith.
Catholics across the world are now being invited to join local consultations about their experience of synodality within the Church as part of a two-year journey towards the next international Synod of Bishops, set for October 2023.