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.

In what has been one of the worst bushfire seasons in recorded history, Australia has been afflicted with a natural disaster of almost biblical proportions – with some 19,000,000 hectares of farmland, national park, and state forest torched by the flames.

Plenary Council President, Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB, said that in in response to the dramatic changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the bishops of Australia have made the “difficult, but necessary” decision to postpone the first assembly of the Plenary Council (PC).

More than 1,300,000 people across Australia watched the Good Friday and Easter Sunday services broadcast live via the Seven Network, making this the most watched program nationally in their respective timeslots.

Plenary Council President Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB said that in in response to the dramatic changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the bishops of Australia have made the “difficult, but necessary” decision to postpone the first assembly of the Plenary Council.

The High Court of Australia has this week announced that it has unanimously quashed Cardinal George Pell’s convictions on historical sexual abuse charges.

Caritas Australia and its PNG partners are helping communities turn challenging life circumstances and relationships into more positive and harmonious ones with the Caritas Australia supported Centre of Hope.

Pope Francis has last month appointed the Most Rev Patrick O’Regan, formerly Bishop of Sale in Victoria, as the 12th Archbishop of Adelaide.