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The funeral for Pope Francis was “solemn and dignified”, Australian Catholic Bishops Conference President, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB said.
Archbishop Costelloe represented the Church in Australia at the funeral Mass in Rome on April 26, 2025.
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has welcomed the appointment by Pope Francis this evening of a new Bishop of Armidale.
A message from Australian Catholic Bishops Conference President, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB:
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference congratulates the Honourable Keith Pitt on his appointment as Australia’s Ambassador to the Holy See.
Pope Francis has this evening appointed Perth-based priest, Fr George Kolodziej SDS, to be the fifth Bishop of Bunbury.
The bishops’ conferences of Australia, Ireland and New Zealand are pooling their expertise and resources in a joint Lectionary project.
Australia’s Catholic bishops have welcomed the installation of the Most Reverend Tim Norton SVD as the third Bishop of Broome.
Australian Catholic Bishops Conference President, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB, has been elected to the Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod.
Fourteen Australian Catholics will enter a retreat on Monday ahead of a month-long global event in Rome aimed at shaping the future of the Church.
Archbishop Anthony Fisher with Ashleigh Green, left, and Angela Markas
Melbourne’s Angela Markas has been encouraged to “be yourself” as she prepares to represent young Australians at a Vatican gathering next month that will help inform this year’s Synod of Bishops on Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment.
Miss Markas, 22, met with members of the Australian Catholic Youth Council this week and shared the story of her faith journey and the faith of the Chaldean Catholic community of which she is a member. Continue reading
The Bishops of Australia received a reminder this week, 8 July, from the Vatican about their responsibility to verify those who provide the bread and wine for the celebration of Mass.
The letter was issued to all bishops around the world from Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
Cardinal Sarah wrote that until recent times, many religious communities took responsibility for “baking the bread and making the wine for the celebration of the Eucharist. Today, however, these materials are also sold in supermarkets and other stores and even over the internet”.
Eucharistic bread and wine
In order to remove any doubt about the “validity of the matter for the Eucharist”, the Dicastery suggested that the bishop should designate “a competent authority in actually guaranteeing the genuineness of the Eucharistic matter by producers as well as those responsible for its distribution and sale”.
It suggested that the bishops conference could mandate one or more religious congregations or another body capable of carrying out “the necessary checks on production, conservation and sale of the Eucharistic bread and wine in a given country and other countries to which they are exported”. Continue reading