Like many remote communities, Janice’s faces a range of challenges – low employment and education, financial hardship, poorer health and lower life expectancy. 

True happiness and true freedom, he said, “are not found in possessing, but in sharing; not in taking advantage of others, but in loving them; not in the obsession of power, but in the joy of service,” said Pope Francis on 6 March, during his Sunday Angelus address. By Junno Arocho Esteves.

The Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney’s Council of Catholic Schools Parents NSW/ACT (CCSP) will be presenting free webinars to help families challenges faced everyday such as online security, wellbeing, and more.

“The Batman” (Warner Bros.). Director and co-writer Matt Reeves’ reboot of the DC Comics-based franchise is a darkly powerful affair, and its script – penned with Peter Craig – plays with the interesting question whether the iconic crimefighter of the title is, in fact, a hero.

Caritas recipient Biru’s resilience and determination to overcome the odds has inspired others in his community who are living with a disability to become independent and self-reliant. By The Record.

In his 2022 Lenten Message, Pope Francis has said Christians are called to sow goodness their entire lives, but even more so during Lent.

Christians must resist “concupiscence,” the tendency to sin, which is a weakness that leads to “selfishness and all evil and finds in the course of history, a variety of ways to lure men and women into sin,” he wrote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAYAyXPevkM Thanks to the generosity of Caritas Australia  Anatercia was able to receive essential school supplies and access to psychosocial supports through a local health committee. Video: Supplied. Caritas Australia has announced the launch of Project Compassion 2022, its annual Lenten fundraising and awareness-raising appeal.  For each of the ...

Pope Francis greets asylum-seekers transferred from Cyprus to Italy with his help, during a meeting at the Vatican on 17 December 2021. The migrants are being assisted by the Vatican and the Community of Sant'Egidio. Photo: CNS/Vatican Media. By Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service Pope Francis' message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2022 will reflect on the importanc...

In ordaining new Brisbane Auxiliary Bishop Tim Norton, Archbishop Mark Coleridge said that the new bishop would have to discover and shape his own profile and identity as bishop, “not unlike what Pope Francis has done and is doing as Bishop of Rome”.

As part of ongoing measures to reform the Roman Curia, Pope Francis has approved restructuring the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the oldest of the congregations.