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Dominican priest killed while hearing confessions in Vietnam
1 February 2022A VIETNAMESE Dominican Father Giuse Tran Ngoc Thanh was killed in a knife attack while hearing confessions shortly before Vespers Mass at a mission in Dak Mot on Saturday. The priest was in the confessional when he was attacked by a man wielding a knife... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Pope says being properly informed on vaccines is a human right
31 January 2022CATHOLIC communicators must help provide correct and truthful information about COVID-19 and its vaccines and do so in a way that avoids oversimplification and creating conflict, Pope Francis said. "Fake news has to be refuted, but individual persons... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Taliban target women's rights as Australian bishops urge for more humanitarian places
28 January 2022THE Taliban took the Afghanistan capital Kabul 166 days ago. The last five months have seen a tightening of secular rights and the propagation of religious standards. Hard-won women's rights were especially under fire. Immediately after the takeover,... - Author: The Catholic Leader
A quarter of Australians have 'little knowledge' of holocaust as pope urges world to remember
27 January 2022"THIS unspeakable cruelty must never be repeated," Pope Francis said in the lead-up to International Holocaust Remembrance Day today. The holocaust saw the genocide of six million of Europe's Jews, or two-thirds of the continent's Jewish population, at... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Pride is an obstacle to Christian unity, pope says
27 January 2022DIVIDED Christians will never find unity unless they are willing to humble themselves, bowing down to worship Jesus and him alone, Pope Francis said. "How many times has pride proved the real obstacle to communion," the pope said as he closed the Week... - Author: The Catholic Leader
P.M. criticised as Aboriginal flag is 'freed', but indigenous communities remain deprived and in poverty
25 January 2022The Aboriginal flag is now available for public use, after its designer agreed to a $20 million deal that includes transfer of copyright to the Commonwealth following long negotiations. However a statement from the Prime Minister that "We've freed the... - Author: The Catholic LeaderBy Victor Gaetan, Catholic News Service Thirty years after the dramatic breakup of the Soviet Union, tremors from that socio-political earthquake continue to reverberate through the vast terrain it once covered. An uprising in Kazakhstan earlier this...
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New course aims to tackle teacher burnout
25 January 2022A new course aims to address a growing crisis of teacher burnout by offering teachers training in mental health targeted at managing the stresses associated with the profession. The first of its kind in Australia, Australian Catholic University's Graduate... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Back-to-school in 2022 like no other year
24 January 2022COVID-19 and the expected peak of its Omicron variant have changed everything for the start of term one with vulnerable students and children of essential workers the only young Queenslanders returning to school this week. Year 11 and 12 students will... - Author: The Catholic LeaderBy Cindy Wooden ENGLISH Archbishop Arthur Roche is a key figure in what is offhandedly known as the Catholic Church's "liturgy wars." Pope Francis named the 71-year-old archbishop prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments in May,...