Caritas Australia, the Catholic Church’s international aid and development agency, has launched a new community engagement plan to communicate the good news of our Church’s social and ecological justice work with parishes, schools, and young people (aged 16 to 25).

Although a global pandemic found him stranded on the other side of the world to his loved ones in the United States, Father Tim Deeter was joined by his Australian family last month to celebrate his 70th birthday.

Catholic Bishops and Adminstrators of Victorian dioceses, including Melbourne, Sale, Bathurst, Sandhurst and the Syro-Malabar Eparchy, have this week released a statement in regards to the Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board Report of Operation January – June 2020.

Plans for a new cancer facility at St John of God Murdoch Hospital have been announced to enhance patient access to comprehensive cancer care in Perth’s southern suburbs.

Parish Pastoral Care Program Coordinators from across the Archdiocese of Perth gathered at the Catholic Pastoral Centre in Highgate on 15 August, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Catholic Outreach with a Mass celebrated by Applecross Parish Priest Father Nelson Po, followed by a brunch event.

Christ’s cross is a powerful symbol of God’s love for humanity and not just a decoration or trinket, Pope Francis has said.

Those chafing under the travel restrictions imposed by the current pandemic may take comfort from The Rental (IFC), the story of an oceanside getaway gone fatally wrong.

By Kurt Jensen Rosamund Pike stars in a scene from the movie "Radioactive". Photo: Amazon Studios/CNS. The key to any good film biography of a scientist is found in the montages that show the discovery or invention that gained the subject fame. On that score, Radioactive (Amazon), the story of Marie Curie (Rosamund Pike), the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for physics, does...

The Light from the Southern Cross: Promoting Co-Responsible Governance in the Catholic Church in Australia has now been published by the ACBC and CRA. Photo: Sourced. The Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference and Catholic Religious Australia have now published an important and substantial document on the review of diocesan and parish governance and management in Australia. The review w...

Researchers from the University of Notre Dame are looking into what lessons can be learned from the COVID 19 lockdown. Image: Stock. The influential philosopher George Santayana once famously said “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The message is simple, we must learn lessons from our past endeavours to better prepare and limit the effects of similar future eve...