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Catholic Weekly

The Catholic world has finally caught up with The Catholic Weekly in publicising the latest research showing the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, with social media running red-hot over a 2022 study by Italian researchers at the Institute of Crystallography in Italy showing that the Shroud of Turin is indeed 2000 years old, as believed by Christian tradition.

Misinformation Laws
Minister for Communications Michelle Rowland. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas)

A reworked version of the misinformation bill tabled by the Labor Government this week is an improvement on an earlier version of the bill, but fundamental flaws make the laws unworkable, experts say.

From bishops, at left, to favourite saints, below centre, to remarkable figures such as St Padre Pio and his stigmata. Photo: Alphonsus Fok

Families take on the culture to restore a supernatural appreciation of feasts
Sydney Catholics are reclaiming All Hallows’ Eve and there’s no trick and it’s all treat!

Treasurer Jim Chalmers

The 2026 Census will include questions covering sexual identity and gender for the first time in Australian history.

Merck MMR Vaccine

A federal appeals court upheld a 2023 lower court ruling in a lawsuit alleging Merck misled the CDC about the potency of its mumps vaccine. Children’s Health Defense CEO Mary Holland, an attorney, called the decision “a very sad day for justice.”

he age of criminal responsibility in the Northern Territory is set to be lowered to 10 years old. Source: SBS News / Laetitia Lemke

The age of criminal responsibility will be reduced as part of a plan to rein in youth crime in the Northern Territory, but advocates say it will have the opposite effect.

he Monastery of the Caves, one of the holiest sites of Eastern Orthodox Christians, in Kyiv. Ukraine’s parliament has voted to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church over its alleged links with Russia. Photograph: Efrem Lukatsky/AP

MPs overwhelmingly back move in initial vote, despite church claim it has cut ties with Moscow

TRANSGENDERISM

Tickle successfully sued social media platform Giggle for Girls with judge stating ‘on its ordinary meaning sex is changeable

British journalist Decca Aitkenhead offered a compelling glimpse into how digital detox can transform young lives — and maybe address what social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, Ph.D., calls “the anxious generation.”

COVID

Tasked with the state’s return to normal following the pandemic, the former premier said the government shouldn’t have implemented wide-ranging vaccine mandates.