In the Philippines, Caritas Australia and its partners are working to improve outcomes for indigenous minorities through improved access to education, employment, and healthcare.

decade-long process of updating the laws of Vatican City State is part of the Vatican’s support for international commitments to protect people and safeguard vulnerable groups who are “frequently the victims of new, odious forms of illegality”, Pope Francis has said.

More than 77 delegates from across the globe gathered at the second International Conference on Catholic Religious Education in Schools in Melbourne last week.

The Catholic Emergency Relief Australia Advisory Council, which will coordinate the Church’s ongoing response to the current bushfire crisis and future national emergencies, has this week named Susan Pascoe as its Chairperson.

Caritas Australia’s new Chief Executive Kirsty Robertson believes everyone is capable and has the power to contribute and play some part (whether big or small) to make a difference in the world.

A new whole-of-Church initiative to help people and communities recover from the current bushfire crisis will set the blueprint for how the Catholic Church responds to domestic natural disasters in the future.

Catholic Mission is joining others across the country and around the world in responding to Australia’s worst-ever bushfire crisis and drought emergency.

Pope Francis has appointed Fr Mykola Bychok CSsR, currently in ministry at St John’s Parish in New Jersey, the third Eparch of Sts Peter and Paul of Melbourne for Ukrainian Catholics in Australia and New Zealand.

Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB is now seeking nominations from lay people, members of religious orders and clergy from the Archdiocese of Perth who are willing to be called as delegates for the Plenary Council Sessions in October 2020 and May 2021.

Wollongong Bishop Brian Mascord invited more than 5000 youth to be the Eucharist of the world at the end of adoration in the evening Plenary session on Monday 9 December.