Profiles of almost 1300 Catholic parishes across Australia – including 101 Perth parishes – have recently been published, offering insights that those parishes have been encouraged to use in their pastoral planning processes.
The Archdiocese of Adelaide welcomed its 12th Archbishop this week as the Most Rev Patrick O’Regan was installed in a near empty St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral in an occasion full of beauty, grace and emotion as the former Bishop of Sale and priest of Bathurst committed himself to his new flock.
Melbourne Archbishop Peter Comensoli has this week announced the appointment of Jim Miles as the new Executive Director of Catholic Education Melbourne (CEM).
The Catholic bishops of Australia have last week elected Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane to a second two-year term as President of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference.
The University of Notre Dame Australia has announced the release of a four-day online course for Registered Nurses looking to upskill, develop and refresh their knowledge of pathophysiology and pharmacology, and relate this to the management of people experiencing illness.
In a major milestone for the Catholic Church in Australia, the Archdiocese of Sydney has last weekend honoured two pioneering chaplains – the country’s first official priests.
Australian singer-songwriter Gary Pinto will lead a free online concert on Saturday 9 May for Project Compassion, bringing Australian and international music stars direct from their lounge room to yours.
The Australian Cardijn Institute (ACI), an organisation named after Belgian Cardinal Joseph Cardijn, has last month welcomed its newly appointed Chair Brian Lawrence LLB.
In support of Australia’s frontline healthcare workers, The University of Notre Dame Australia’s School of Nursing and Midwifery is launching free online continuing professional development (CPD) short courses for any healthcare professional looking to refresh and upskill themselves in the management of the critically ill patient.
The recent decision to indefinitely postpone the First Assembly of the Plenary Council (PC) (scheduled for October 2020) due to the unavoidable circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, did not deter the absolute commitment of the bishops, and hopefully of all Australian Catholics, to the Plenary Council, and could instead buy more time for Catholics to discern, affirmed Plenary Council President Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB during the recent Holy Thursday Mass live telecast from St Mary’s Cathedral.