The De La Salle Brothers will sell their Malvern school to fund compensation claims from victims of historical sexual abuse and to financially support ageing brothers. The buyer, Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools, will take over the running of the college for more than 1000 boys in years 5 to 12. Lawyers say they have more Read more
From 1 September, RNZ Pacific will resume its shortwave analogue service to the Pacific region between the hours of 5am and 9am New Zealand time. Shortwave radio is radio transmission using shortwave (SW) radio frequencies. RNZ Pacific broadcasts in digital and analogue shortwave to radio stations and individual listeners in the Pacific . The digital Read more
A Kansas middle school teacher will receive $95,000 in a settlement with her school district, which tried to force her to comply with its gender policies — even if it meant lying to parents about their children’s gender transitions. Pamala Ricard, who has taught K-12 math for decades, currently teaches grades six through eight at Read more
Ukrainian bishops welcomed efforts to restart classes for a new school year and offered church basements as emergency air raid shelters for children. “The Ukrainian authorities know education is vital for the country’s future, so everything is being done to get youngsters back to school, even while our soldiers are fighting at the front,” Auxiliary Read more
An app called CathAssist, designed for Chinese Catholics, was shut down last week. The company behind it was unable to get a licence from the Chinese government to continue operations. According to the CathAssist team, “Since the implementation of [new rules] on 1 March, we have made various efforts to apply for an Internet Religious Read more
German Cardinal Walter Brandmüller (93), a once influential conservative prelate known to be at odds with several aspects of the Francis papacy, has asked that the right to vote in a conclave be limited to those residing in Rome. Brandmüller said that there are too many cardinals who come from faraway places, so they lack Read more
They say everybody has a book in them, but one Kavanagh College pupil has already proven he has more. Kavanagh College’s Tom Davis (15) has published three books since 2019, a trilogy which now resides in the school library. The Lizard trilogy is a series of books aimed at readers aged 7-13 following the tale Read more
Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary-general of the Synod of Bishops, said he continues to have confidence in the Synodal Path of the Catholic Church in Germany. “Perhaps the communication on the reform project could have been better,” Grech said in an interview with Anna Mertens, editor of the German Catholic news agency KNA, published on 29 Read more
The Vatican acted to mend strained relations with Ukraine on Tuesday after Pope Francis upset Kyiv by referring to Russian ultra-nationalist Darya Dugina, who was killed by a car bomb near Moscow, as an innocent victim of war. Last week, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba summoned the Vatican’s ambassador in Kyiv to protest, saying the Read more