PRO-LIFE GROUPS have given their support to Victorian MP Geoff Shaw’s plan to overhaul the State’s abortion laws. Last week, it was reported that Mr Shaw was finalising plans for a private member’s bill that he hoped would be debated in State Parliament soon. The bill proposes six amendments to the existing Victorian abortion laws, which were passed in 2008. Mr Shaw wants to make p...

BRIAN Harradine was laid to rest on April 23 after a State funeral was held in honour of Australia’s longest-serving independent senator. Archbishop Julian Porteous told a crowd of more than 600 people gathered at St Mary’s Cathedral in Hobart that Mr Harradine was a man of high principle and great integrity. “He is seen by allies and by those who opposed him as a man who would not go...

Pope Francis has given his blessing to the creation of a Territory for the Torres Strait to be established within the Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross.

The Holy Father Pope Francis has appointed Archbishop of Melbourne and President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) Archbishop Denis Hart to the Pontifical Council for Culture.

Thousands of mourners farewelled Bishop Michael Putney of Townsville on April 7, with many more watching the funeral Mass via a live stream on the internet.

The Australian Catholic parish is on the verge of extinction, almost 200 people were told recently at the Pastoral Research Office’s (PRO) national conference in Melbourne.

The Australian Catholic Film Office says movie company Paramount Pictures has taken a big risk with its production of the Biblical epic, Noah.

The Australian Christians party hopes that the re-run of the WA federal senate election will result in its first representative making it to Canberra.

Father Michael McCarthy has been appointed by Pope Francis on March 10 as the new Bishop of Rockhampton in Queensland, five months after the position became vacant.

The bishop appointed to head the newly erected Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of St. Thomas the Apostle of Melbourne, Australia, said he has “a tough task ahead.”