Diocesan priests may get the opportunity to live a more fraternal life with the Archdiocese of Brisbane announcing an Oratory will be established in the city by 2016, the first of its kind in Australia.

Catholic Health Australia will not stand in the way of proposals to remove Catholic health providers’ current exemption from anti-discrimination laws which allow them to discriminate in who they employ and serve on religious grounds.

‘Our Father’ might not be the best way to think of God, according to a document released last week by the Office for the Participation of Women (OPW), an official body of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC).

Music is more than background noise for Victoria Park parishioner, Sean Mousley. It is a pathway to inclusion and growth, and life might be pretty boring without it, he told The Record this week. Mr Mousley, 29, is preparing to perform at the 2013 Yamaha National Band Championships, held in Perth, March 29 – April 1, as part of Canning City Brass – a 30-strong ensemble in which he plays ...

The prominent atheist biologist would be amazed to hear what this UNDA philosopher thinks of him, writes Robert Hiini.

Victor Lujano was ordained a priest at St Mary’s Cathedral on March 8. His mother and sister and followers of the Neo-catechumenal Way were there to celebrate it with him.

Stephen Hill, a former Traditional Anglican Priest, was ordained to the Catholic priesthood at St Joseph’s Subiaco on March 1. Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB of Perth ordained Rev. Hill for the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, at the request of Ordinariate head, Fr Harry Entwistle.

The newly appointed pontiff, Pope Francis has a love for Eastern Catholic liturgy and a history of supporting Eastern Catholic communities says Patriarch Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

JERUSALEM (CNS) - Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal commended Pope Francis on his election with the traditional Arabic greeting of "Alf mabrouk," or "1,000 congratulations." "There is depth in our communion. Holy Father, it is with gratitude and great hope that we look forward to all that you do for the church, the world and the pastoral solicitude that you will have for our Latin patriarchate ...

  WASHINGTON (CNS) - Catholic leaders worldwide expressed words of hope and joy in calling upon Catholics to come together as one body behind the papacy of Pope Francis. International political leaders also offered words of congratulations and pledged to work with the new pontiff on common goals and concerns in a complex world. Church bells tolled around the world with the ann...