Caritas Australia is urging Australians to support communities devastated by catastrophic flooding in Nepal as local partner Caritas Nepal expands its emergency response to reach families who have lost homes, livelihoods and loved ones. As the scale of the disaster continues to emerge, hundreds of lives have been lost, thousands of people are still missing or unaccounted for, and there is w...

Students in Tigray, Ethiopia enjoy a Mary’s Meal school meal. Students reportedly feeling hungry at school dropped from 72 per cent to zero per cent following the introduction of the program. Photo: Mary’s Meals. As conflict, rising food prices, and climate shocks continue to drive hunger in the countries where Mary’s Meals works, the global school feeding charity’s recently released 2025 I...

Broken Bay News Editor Katrina Lee with ACPA Vice President Tiffany Davis and Dunedin Bishop Michael Dooley. Photo: Jeremy Yuen/ACPA. Broken Bay News, the magazine of the Catholic Diocese of Broken Bay, has won the Bishop Philip Kennedy Memorial Award for Overall Excellence at the 2026 Australasian Catholic Press Association Awards in Christchurch. Dunedin Bishop Michael Dooley presented...

The growing momentum of the Catholic student movement at universities across Australia was demonstrated recently as more than 70 Catholic university students gathered in Sydney for the Australian Catholic Students Association's (ACSA) 2026 National Conference. The conference explored Catholic Social Teaching through the lens of Christ the King. Photo: ACSA/Giovanni Portelli Photography. ...

Catholic Mission is inviting schools across Australia to kick goals for good and compete to create the next official sockball following the launch of Socktober 2026. The national challenge coincides with the centenary of World Mission Sunday. As part of the competition, schools, students and youth groups are invited to design and build a new sockball using recycled materials. Image: Cath...

The Society is urging the government to recognise housing as a fundamental human right and to make it a national priority. Photo: Phil Bayne. The St Vincent de Paul Society has used National Homelessness Week (3 - 9 August) to urge the Australian Government to act on this year's theme, Homelessness Action Now by recognising housing as a fundamental human right ...

“2026 marks the launch of a new campaign by one of Australia’s oldest Catholic international development agencies, Palms International Volunteering”, said its Executive Director Soraya Kassim.  “We are launching Simplicity September as a distillation of the wisdom of the last 65 years of our operation.”  The essence of the Simplicity September campaign is to challenge Catholics...

The free online healthcare screening tools and professional development modules are available to healthcare professionals who are uniquely positioned to identify, respond to, and refer victims of modern slavery to specialist support. Image: ACRATH. Modern slavery in Australia remains hidden in plain sight and often overlaps with family violence, homelessness, substance dependence, mental il...

By Joel Hall As the 2026 Catholic Social Services Western Australia (CSSWA) Awards hover on the horizon, last year’s winners have reflected on the processes that led them to be worthy recipients. Employee of the Year Ian Smith said he was humbled and honoured for not only receiving last year’s award but for doing pastoral care work for Catholic Homes- the service for which landed him the...

National Vocations Awareness Week (2 – 9 August), will provide a myriad of opportunities for prayer, fellowship and community. Image: Perth Vocations Office. The Perth Vocations Office is inviting Catholics across the Archdiocese to take part in National Vocations Awareness Week (2 – 9 August), with an expanded program of events designed to encourage people to explore the many ways God call...