Sky view of a regional town in central western New South Wales. Renters in regional Australia are facing forced evictions as inflation pressures push up the cost of housing and COVID 19 forces mass exodus from bigger cities. Photo: Adobe. Renters in regional Australia are facing forced evictions as inflation pressures push up the cost of housing and COVID 19 forces mass exodus from bigger c...

Perth Members of the Plenary Council following the Perth Closing Mass of the First Assembly on 10 December. Photo: Michelle Tan. The fruits of the First General Assembly of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia have been gathered together in a new report that contains dozens of proposals to shape the ongoing Council journey. The more than 270 Plenary Council Members gathered online for...

Desmond O’Grady meeting St John Paul II in this undated photo. Photo: Donatella O’Grady/Supplied. Catholic journalist and novelist Desmond O’Grady has passed away Friday 26 November at 91 years of age. O’Grady has published some articles for The Record Magazine over the last couple of years. O’Grady, who was born in Melbourne, also has several works of fiction and non-fiction to his name...

Palms Australia volunteers viewing an Indigenous map. Over 1550 Australians, at 103 Orientation Courses, have been prepared to engage in these challenging cross-cultural relationships to build understanding, acceptance, and care, and provide the assistance requested, across 41 countries in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Photo: Supplied. A concept of Pope Francis expressed in “Fratelli Tutti...

The Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle has last week published a moving tribute in honour of Bishop Bill Wright, who passed away Saturday 13 November. Source: Diocese of Maitland Newcastle. Since being ordained as the eighth Bishop of the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle in 2011, Bishop Bill Wright immersed himself in the community. He led the way in helping the Diocese walk alongside those who...

By Ella Archibald-Binge, ABC news The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in the United States Chief Operating Officer Michelle DeLaune said the organisation received more than 21 million reports last year, mostly from tech companies, regarding child sexual exploitation on their servers. The Children in the Pictures documentary is streaming now on SBS. Photo: Sourced....

Adelaide Archbishop Patrick O’Regan and Sandhurst Bishop Shane Mackinlay have been elected Australia’s two delegates to the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, to be held in 2023. The delegates were confirmed during the recent plenary meeting of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. In March 2020, Pope Francis announced that the theme of the next Synod of Bishops would be “For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation and Mission”. The Holy Father launched the international journey towards the celebration of the Synod in October this year, with local launches and a diocesan consultation phase commencing soon after. That local engagement will support the preparation of national syntheses, which will be followed by continental meetings. Australia’s bishops will collaborate […]

Darwin Bishop Charles Gauci has last week apologised unreservedly to members of the Stolen Generation who were abused at the Garden Point Catholic Mission on the Tiwi more than 50 years ago.

Father Danny Meagher will be installed as an Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney on 8 December, serving alongside Bishop’s Terry Brady and Richard Umbers. Photo: Supplied. Pope Francis has appointed Sydney priest Fr Danny Meagher, the former rector of Good Shepherd Seminary, an Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Sydney, the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) confirmed on 18 November. ...

Uluru is located in the Northern Territory. Photo: Adobe. Australia’s Catholic bishops, on the recommendation of their key Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander advisers, have endorsed the Uluru Statement from the Heart. The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference made the decision as it gathered online for its biannual meeting earlier this month. The bishops’ consideration of the matt...