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Australia’s Catholic bishops say the issues surrounding the proposed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice referendum ‘are not just political’, but are also ‘moral and ethical’.

Amid rising tensions among European leaders over how to respond to a new influx of migrants, Pope Francis arrived in the French port city of Marseille on 22 September 2023, warning that civilisation is at a crossroads.

The incoming Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has warned that bishops – both progressive and those from traditionalist groups – who think they have a ‘special gift of the Holy Spirit to judge the doctrine of the Holy Father’ are on a road to ‘heresy’ and ‘schism’.

Newly discovered correspondence suggests that World War II-era Pope Pius XII had detailed information from a trusted German Jesuit that up to 6000 Jews and Poles were being killed each day in German-occupied Poland. 

Brazilian soccer legend Ronaldo Luís Nazario da Lima, nicknamed ‘The Phenomenon’, has received the sacrament of Baptism. 

The humanitarian organisation, Save the Children, has reported close to two million children in sub-Saharan Africa were displaced in their own countries last year due to climate change-related disasters, nearly doubling the number of the previous year.

Ecological injustice ‘has robbed food from the plates of millions of children in poor countries and snatched water from their thirsty mouths’, says Myanmar’s Cardinal Charles Maung Bo.

Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi (pictured) has been to China as a papal ambassador to support humanitarian initiatives and search for ways that can lead to a just peace in Ukraine.

The Nicaraguan Government has removed the legal status of the Society of Jesus in the country and said it will confiscate its assets. The Government announced that it had cancelled the official registration of the ‘Association Society of Jesus’ and that its property would pass to the state.

Last month Pope Francis, aged 86, made the first-ever visit of a pontiff to Mongolia, a country with a tiny Catholic population, sandwiched between Russia and China. The country has just 1,500 Catholics in the entire country. The Pope ended his five-day mission with a stop to inaugurate the House of Mercy, which provides health care to the most needy in the Mongolian capital as well as to the homeless, victims of domestic abuse and migrants.