National
An impassioned call for “a prayer for the future of our common home, a gospel for the home of our future generations” was made during the final reporting back on small group discernment by Plenary Council members.
International
Pope Francis has appointed Filipino Archbishop Adolfo Tito Yllana as Apostolic Nuncio to Israel and Cyprus and Apostolic Delegate to Jerusalem and Palestine.
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Pope Francis has established that from now on the ministries of lector and acolyte are to be open to women in a stable and institutionalised form through a specific mandate.
It may not have taken place in Rome as planned but the Pallium Investiture Mass for Archbishop Patrick O’Regan was fittingly held in St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral, Adelaide, on the feast of St Francis Xavier.
Fr Michael Odiwa, a priest in Hectorville parish, has been appointed Bishop of Homa Bay, Kenya.
Pope Francis’ latest encyclical has been described by Archbishop Mark Coleridge as a roadmap for the world beyond a global pandemic and “not just for believers but for the entire human family”.
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