The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) and Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans (ACRATH) support His Holiness Pope Francis in declaring Sunday, 8 February 2015, the Feast of St Josephine Bakhita, as a world day of prayer, reflection and action against human trafficking.
Decades spent improving education in Western Australia and across the country has been recognised with former National Catholic Education Commission chair Therese Temby this week being named an officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AO)
On 15 February, Caritas Australia, the international aid and development organisation of the Catholic Church, will launch its annual Project Compassion appeal – one of Australia’s largest humanitarian campaigns.
In light of Pope Francis’ recent comments to Italian Catholic doctors against the evils of euthanasia, the announcement of the Hope International Symposium in Adelaide this year is a timely one.
Caritas Australia has this week reported that the response to the clean-up following the destruction caused by Typhoon Hagupit is well under way.
The Shepparton priest released his new and much awaited acoustic album, Something About You, to the delight of thousands of expectant fans on October 25.
More than 50 young men and women from the Neocatechumenal Way in Perth undertook a pilgrimage to Adelaide earlier this year in search of their vocation.
A submission from the Catholic Church’s Truth Justice and Healing Council to the child abuse Royal Commission has called for a mandatory national victims’ redress scheme operated by Government but funded by the institutions responsible for the abuse.
Caritas Australia started in the early 1960s among lay Catholics who wanted to make a difference on issues of social justice. To tackle the issues of hunger and poverty, they created the Catholic Overseas Relief Committee in 1964.