Australia’s Catholic bishops have this week called for respect and understanding in the federal election campaign, reminding Australians they all have a part to play in combating “crude tribalism” and promoting peaceful public debate.

The Archdiocese of Melbourne have plans to send around 2500 of their young people to the Australian Catholic Youth Festival (ACYF) that is scheduled to take place in Perth from 8 to 10 December this year.

Nguyet is a teenager living with a disability in a small town in Vietnam. Her early years were subdued and solitary.

Yohanes Baskoro has been caught up in a whirlwind tour of Australia as part of the Caritas Project Compassion launch serie

Off the back of receiving a record number of 540 poems last year, entries are now open for one of Australia’s richest poetry prize.

The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) President Archbishop Mark Coleridge said it would be “naïve” to ignore the role the child sexual abuse crisis has played in a slight drop in recent Mass attendance figures.

Salma was just 18 years old, pregnant and fearful for her life and that of her unborn child, when she featured in Project Compassion 2013.

By Amanda Murthy  “Dear young people, keep running the race before you, attracted by the face of Christ, whom we love so much, whom we adore in the Holy Eucharist and acknowledge in the flesh of our suffering brothers and sisters. “The Church needs your momentum, your intuitions, your faith. We need them!” Those were the words of Pope Francis, who extended a hope-filled message dedicated t...

Twenty-one year-old Michaela is helping to build a social enterprise for people with chronic illnesses at The Purple House in Alice Springs.

Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has on Sunday 18 March prayed with special intentions for the victims, their families and friends of the New Zealand terrorist attack.