Couple-parent families, especially those on low incomes, will bear the burden of Labor’s decision to support government cuts to Family Tax Benefit Part B (FTB B). Chief Executive of Catholic Social Services Australia, Marcelle Mogg, said that Coalition and Labor should not be taking FTB B from low and middle-income families with school-age children. “Cuts to FTB B should not discrimin...

Pilgrims travelling to Rome can experience the best of both worlds, earthly and spiritual, when they find themselves at Domus Australia.

Businesses are called on to promote harmony between work and family for their employees, especially for women with children or those who are starting families, Pope Francis said on 31 October in an audience with the Christian Union of Italian Business Executives.

Local not-for-profit organization, MercyCare, is shining a spotlight on a volunteer program supporting elderly readers ahead of state-wide Seniors Week celebrations.

Just as the title, Believe Me, was fading from the screen, there was a momentary after-image of just three letters from Believe: LIE. It was an indication of what was to come, a story that was based on deception – until the end, when all the edifying plot developments emerged.

By Rebecca DiGirolamo Father Rob Galea’s living example of how to be ‘cool and Catholic’ will take centre stage before thousands of young people at next month’s Australian Catholic Youth Festival. The assistant parish priest from Bendigo is a guest speaker at the festival in Adelaide next month, as well as being involved in leading workshops and performing. Fr Galea said he was hop...

Improving access to care for expectant mothers experiencing a stressful pregnancy is one of many outcomes from a recent Western Australian study published in the international research journal, Child Development. The study, conducted by researchers at The University of Notre Dame Australia and the Telethon Kids Institute, found that mothers who experienced more stressful events during th...

As part of the launch of the 2015 Archbishop’s Christmas LifeLink Appeal, Identitywa CEO Marina Re spoke about the work of the disability care provider, telling the story of five-year-old Sadie and her family and how the support they have gained from Identitywa has changed their lives. Below is the words of Sadie’s mother Lynley, and her experience of receiving the life-giving support th...

Sister Pauline Marcella Coll was born on 16 January 1939 in Maryborough, Queensland. She was the youngest child of John and Evelyn (née Smith) Coll. Born to older parents, Sr Coll knew and admired her parents as they aged. She described her father as a gentle, strong man, well-educated and with a strong instinct for justice, and saw her mother as an extrovert, very sensitive, and as some...

The St Vincent de Paul Society National Council has marked Anti-Poverty Week 2015 with the launch of the ‘Sick with Worry…’ report, containing stories from the front-line of inequality and 14 recommendations for urgent action by the Federal Government to help enable people to achieve their dreams of a life without poverty.