https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG_PFLAkYOE On the Feast of St Francis of Assisi, Bishop Shane Mackinlay has said the saint that so loved creation and those living in poverty can inspire the work of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia. Bishop Mackinlay, the Bishop of Sandhurst and the Plenary Council’s vice-president, celebrated Mass for the first day of the Council’s program, a day...

Here are some of the highlights of the Opening Mass of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia at St Mary's Cathedral, Perth, on Sunday 3 October, 2021. The Aboriginal Cross stands in front of the lectern for the Book of the Gospels at St Mary’s Cathedral for the Opening Mass of the Fifth Plenary Council on Sunday 3 October at St Mary’s Cathedral. Plenary Councils Members Sr Lucy Van Kess...

A new resource developed by the Office of Christian Initiation will be launched next month with the aim of engaging young people in conversation and reflection about the Christian faith.

The issue of Conversion in the Agenda of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia invites Members to think about how we might better accompany one another on the journey of personal and communal conversion which mission in Australia requires.

The 2021 World Mission Month was launched with a digital campaign, connecting mission partners from around the world. The campaign sheds light on the dedication of missionaries to serving people in places where poverty and disadvantage compound the devastating impact of COVID-19.

In this special report, Paul Cleary writes about Mercy Sisters Bernadette Kennedy and Bernadine Daly, who answered a call to work with Aboriginal people in the late 70’s in the mid-west WA town of Roebourne.

The United States House of Representatives have last week passed what opponents consider one of the most extreme abortion bills ever seen in the nation – the Women’s Health Protection Act. The measures of the Bill establish the legal right to abortion on demand at any stage of pregnancy in all 50 states under federal law.

What does formation mean? What is it and how do we get it?
Is it merely through catechesis? Is it by committing the principles of the faith to memory by rote?
According to Centre of Faith Enrichment lecturer Natalie Thomas, formation is about much more. It is about learning to understand the God in whom we trust and what it means to be a follower of Christ. Nathan Hondros reports for The Record ahead of the First Assembly of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia.

The Catholic Church has welcomed Australian Government support for international efforts to amend intellectual property rights to ensure more people can access life-saving COVID-19 vaccines.

After a mysterious intruder murders her abusive husband (Jake Abel) and attacks her, causing the latest in a series of miscarriages she has suffered, a troubled woman (Annabelle Wallis) inexplicably begins to witness other slayings by the same killer, being somehow transported, by means she can’t figure out, in a paralyzed trance state to the scene of each crime.