Caritas Australia’s Nicole Clements reflects on why we should all support Project Compassion this Lent

Deacon Stephen Hill says if he has one regret about his forthcoming ordination as a Catholic priest, it is that Pope Benedict XVI will not be the pontiff when it happens. Nevertheless, the former Anglican priest says, it is an exciting time to be a Catholic. It is a state of communion he believes God has been drawing him to his whole life. On Friday, March 1, Deacon Hill will be ordai...

The prayers of lay Catholics looking for intellectual stimulation in the faith may have been answered with the announcement last week of a series of dinner lectures to be given by some of the best Catholic minds Perth has to offer. The newly-founded Dawson Society for Philosophy and Culture will present Christian Man in the Modern World on Tuesday, February 26, with lectures from Perth’s...

Melbourne Auxiliary Bishop Peter Elliott did not mince his words when preaching to members of the legal profession on January 29. The faith is substantive and develops organically, and demands an adult understanding if we are ever to integrate belief and life, and while some argue that religion should be purged from the public square, everything, Bishop Elliott said, ultimately belongs to God.

The faith is not a set of catch phrases and Catholics need more than a “childish jumble of pious bits and pieces” to live authentically Christian lives, says Melbourne Bishop Peter Elliott.

Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop has been named as Australia’s second patron after the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) received a formal decree approving her appointment.

NSW bishop institutes Marian prayer for 43,000 students in Catholic schools

Former Hockeyroos gold medallist and Order of Australia Medal recipient, Rachel Dwyer OAM (nee Imison), says studying Medicine at The University of Notre Dame Australia has enhanced the ethical and professional skills she will require in her chosen profession of paediatrics. Mrs Dwyer chose to study Medicine at Notre Dame for the support provided to mature-age students and students with ...

Federal opposition leader Tony Abbott announced last week he supports in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and never sought to restrict abortions as health minister. In an opinion piece in The Sunday Telegraph, Mr Abbott said he never sought to restrict access to the morning-after-pill or sought to prevent the importation of RU486 – a drug that can terminate a pregnancy up to nine weeks. He a...

ABC broadcaster and abuse survivor Eoin Cameron has urged people who were abused to come forward and give evidence at the Royal Commission into child sex abuse. Speaking on the ABC’s 7.30 WA program, Mr Cameron said memories of the abuse he experienced at the hands of a Marist brother in South Australia around 40 years ago were ever present in his life. “People will say, oh, get over ...