The Catholic Weekly 28 June 2020

catholicweekly.com.au 4 NEWS 28, June, 2020 catholicsuper.com.au We’re here to help you Find the career you deserve catholicjobsonline.com.au CATHOLIC JOBS ONLINE For all the latest Catholic Jobs call Katie on (02) 9390 5402 Rohingya appeal call ¾ ¾ David Ryan CARITAS AUSTRALIA is urg- ing Australians to donate to its work with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh before 30 June. Donations made to Caritas by this date – the end of the financial year – have the ad- vantage of being tax deducti- ble. The organisation, together with its country partners, have been working in the crowded refugee camps of Bangladesh where 1.3 million Rohingya have fled from genocide in nearby Myanmar. Many reside in the densely populated coastal city of Cox Bazar - estimated to be the largest refugee camp in the world. With the monsoon sea- son on its way and the threat posed by COVID-19, the com- munity is facing a triple threat including a catastrophic hu- manitarian crisis. Social distancing in the camp is almost impossible, with UNHCR data showing 93 per cent of the population living below the emergency standard of 45 square metres per person. Water, soap and masks are also in short supply. Eleanor Trinchera Caritas Austral- ia’s Program Coordinator for Bangladesh, Nepal and Phil- ippines, said she was “deep- ly concerned” about what is transpiring in the congested camps. Health facilities in the camps are limited and some mid-term shelters managed by Caritas have been convert- ed into additional quarantine sites to accommodate cases. Staff come to work every day, knowing that the work they do in the camps will save lives.” Donations can be made at: caritas.org.au/give Funerals Conducted With Dignity Australian Family Owned Servicing all religious traditions. T. (02) 9673 6880 - All Suburbs E: [email protected] 52A King Street, St Marys NSW 2760 and working to help the wider community during the COV- ID-19 pandemic. “We pray for all people in our country who are strug- gling as a consequence of Cov- L’Arche stands firm L’ARCHE AUSTRALIA will continue its good work in spite of the scandal which erupted after the posthumous revela- tion of sexual misconduct by L’Arche founder Jean Vanier in February. “[It] has shaken us all and elicited grief, confusion, and anger in many people who have been committed to L’Arche over the years,” L’Arche Australia Board Chairper- son Julia Walters wrote in the movement’s May Newsletter. Walters acknowledged the pain and confusion the reve- lations had caused within the L’Arche community but em- phasised the positive mission of L’Arche in the lives of many in Australia and around the world. “In these tumultuous times the communities of L’Arche Australia are standing firm- ly on the ground of their own experience over the past 42 years,” she wrote. “Throughout that time they have witnessed the growth and transformation of many lives. “They have accompanied each other through times of struggle and vulnerability and have celebrated milestones. “Whatever the challenges we face, we will continue to live the changing seasons of our lives with one another.” Walters also wrote that L’Arche Australia is praying id-19.” L’Arche is an interna- tional organisation that works to create support networks and spaces to help those with intellectual disabilities. The core values of L’Arche derive from Christian social teaching but participation in L’Arche is open to people of any faith background. WWW.L ’ARCHE.ORG.AU ¾ ¾ David Ryan Pope Francis visits with the “Chicco” community, part of the L’Arche movement, in May, 2016. PHOTO: CNS/L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO In brief Asteroid named for Jesuit ONE MORE Jesuit has had an asteroid named for him. Father Chris Cor- bally, an astronomer at the Vatican Observato- ry, has had his name at- tached to a rocky body in the asteroid belt that or- bits the sun once every four years. The honour was a sur- prise, Fr Corbally said. “I’m not a kind of aster- oid guy” like some of my colleagues at the obser- vatory, he said. “For me it came as a complete sur- prise. That’s why it’s kind of nice.” The particular aster- oid, designated 119248 Corbally, is about 1.6 kilo- metres across in size. It was discovered in 2001, by Roy Tucker, a retired senior from the Imaging Technology Laboratory at the University of Arizona. Tucker has worked extensively with Vatican astronomers. Naming an asteroid requires approv- al from the International Astronomical Union.