With world leaders this month scheduled to meet in Paris for the COP 21 climate summit, Catholic Earthcare Australia is supporting the convention of a People’s Climate March from 27 to 29 November in various cities across Australia.

Australia’s most successful female theology export credits her flourishing career to a Mercy Sister who threatened to haunt her beyond the grave.

A new Missal of the Catholic Church will be used for the first time in parishes of the Ordinariates in Australia from the end of this month.

By Rebecca DiGirolamo Father Rob Galea’s living example of how to be ‘cool and Catholic’ will take centre stage before thousands of young people at next month’s Australian Catholic Youth Festival. The assistant parish priest from Bendigo is a guest speaker at the festival in Adelaide next month, as well as being involved in leading workshops and performing. Fr Galea said he was hop...

The St Vincent de Paul Society National Council has marked Anti-Poverty Week 2015 with the launch of the ‘Sick with Worry…’ report, containing stories from the front-line of inequality and 14 recommendations for urgent action by the Federal Government to help enable people to achieve their dreams of a life without poverty.

National Director of the Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office, Fr Maurizio Pettenà CS, has this week welcomed news the Australian Government has given visas to the first of the 12,000 Syrian and Iraqi refugees to be resettled in Australia. On Tuesday, at the Australian Embassy in Amman, Jordan, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton personally gave out the first refugee visas to fou...

The new website for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing has arrived. The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) have last week launched the new website, Deaf and Hard of Hearing Catholic Ministry, via video conference. The Emmanuel Centre and Catholic Ministry for Deaf and Hard of Hearing, based in Perth co-ordinated services in Perth that enabled those who attended (in Perth) to part...

The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) will this week launch a new website, Deaf and Hard of Hearing Catholic Ministry, via video conference.

The days of the Church in Australia conducting its own investigations into child ¬sexual abuse “must be over”, according to the Chief Executive of the Truth, Justice and Healing Council, Francis Sullivan.

Catholic Mission more than doubled the number of children it supported through community-based programs, the charity has revealed in its recent 2014/15 Annual Report.