Natural disasters, including bushfires and pandemics, can be highly distressing events for those in disaster affected communities. St John of God Health Care Psychology Manager Donna Buckingham explains the human response to disasters and strategies that can help to overcome these feelings.

Catholic students from across the country have joined together in a video performance of the national song ‘Faith in the Future’, to celebrate 200 years of Catholic education in Australia, which marks the anniversary of the first official Catholic school opened in Parramatta in October 1820.

The fifth Australian Plenary Council has been formally convoked, or launched, by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference.

Damian Walsh is the Director of Archdiocesan agency, The Shopfront, and a Plenary Council Member for the Archdiocese of Perth.

Finley, a talented aspiring violinist, meets Beckett, a famous young movie star, on the way to her college semester abroad program in a small coastal village in Ireland. An unexpected romance emerges as the heartthrob Beckett leads the uptight Finley on an adventurous reawakening, and she emboldens him to take charge of his future, until the pressures of his stardom get in the way. By Sister Hosea Rupprecht.

The Greenwood Parish community marked the Easter Triduum in spectacular fashion this year at All Saints Church.

A coalition of lay Christians have responded to Burmese Cardinal Charles Bo’s call for Prayer for the Church and Peoples of China.

Melbourne priests Msgr Anthony Ireland and Fr Martin Ashe, have last week been appointed as new Auxiliary Bishops of the Archdiocese of Melbourne by Pope Francis.

Abuse against a minor is a kind of “psychological murder” that can destroy the victim’s childhood, Pope Francis has said.

A month-long prayer campaign in the build-up to the first assembly of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia has been launched this week.