Paul Fitzgerald AM is one of Australia’s most distinguished portrait painters. During his career—which spans more than 60 years—he has painted some of the world’s most notable figures, including Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Prince Charles and Pope John XXIII, writes Fiona Basile…

The Archdiocese of Sydney’s Great Grace Conference, held from May 20-23, was so popular organisers ended up turning overflow crowds away. Among the speakers, Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron set out the authentic Vatican II agenda.

The media are not inherently hostile to the Catholic Church, CatholicVoices founders Jack Valero and Austen Ivereigh told an international conference in Sydney last month. Most of the time journalists are just doing their jobs. Catholics could run from their difficult questions or, in the spirit of Vatican II, seize on them as opportunities to change the world, reports Robert Hiini …

How can confident lay, religious and ordained Catholic communicators grasp the opportunities presented by controversy? CatholicVoices co-founder Austen Ivereigh gave a concrete example at The Great Grace Conference in Sydney, last month.

Apparent a-religiosity among Catholic schools and hospitals was a major sign an authentic reception of the Second Vatican Council had yet to take place in Australia, a leading Australian Catholic intellectual told an international conference last week.

Advocates of the Church accommodating itself to the ‘signs of the times’ were hopelessly out-of-date, even at the time of the Second Vatican Council, Australian Professor Tracey Rowland said at The Great Grace Conference in Sydney last week.

The Catholic Church has to be honest with itself in assessing why many former Catholics have switched to Pentecostal Christianity, a leading Holy See official in ecumenical affairs said in Sydney recently.

A high-powered conference in Sydney will seek to shed light on whether Tradition liberates or enslaves us. Tradition Conference 2013 will take place at the University of Notre Dame’s Sydney campus from July 2-5. The conference will feature seven international speakers and a bevy of well-known Australian philosophers and theologians, including Bishop Anthony Fisher OP, John Haldane, Ma...

Diocesan priests may get the opportunity to live a more fraternal life with the Archdiocese of Brisbane announcing an Oratory will be established in the city by 2016, the first of its kind in Australia.

Catholic Health Australia will not stand in the way of proposals to remove Catholic health providers’ current exemption from anti-discrimination laws which allow them to discriminate in who they employ and serve on religious grounds.