More than 1,500 Catholics and their bishops from across the state gathered in Austin April 9 to advocate on issues such as payday lending, health and human services, school choice tax credit scholarships, justice for immigrants, health care and protecting human life.

Rollen, 24, lives in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Village life is often demanding and, for many years, she desperately wanted to study. At age 17 she was finally able to, and since then, she believes anything is possible.

By Carol Glatz Cardinal-electors are caught in a Catch-22. They are eager to give the world a new pope; however, they need time to pick the right leader, said South Africa's cardinal. "There might be a need for a long delay" as the cardinals try to gauge how much they do or don't know enough about each other, Cardinal Wilfrid Napier told Catholic News Service March 1, the first day of...

Trinity College’s Director of Music, Dr Robert Braham (left), with Alasdair McLaren.

By Cindy Wooden Pope Benedict XVI encouraged lay Catholics in Africa to defend Christian and traditional African values, share their faith in Jesus and transform African society. “The most valid traditional values of African culture are threatened today by secularisation,” unleashing confusion and tension, which are seen in new waves of “tribalism, violence, corruption in public life,...

By Dr Angela McCarthy John Paul’s Palm Sunday is a very rich symbolic view that stems from the theme of the Mandorla Art Award taken from St Paul’s letter to the Galatians 4:4. : “But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law”. Born of a woman, Jesus learned to love through the love of his family, and particularly the love of his mother ...

Stability in the workforce leads to the dignity of workers The recent increase in casual and contract work has become an obstacle to the dignity of many workers and their families, according to the Chairman of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, Bishop Christopher Saunders. Issuing the annual pastoral letter for the Feast of St Joseph the Worker (May 1), Bishop Saunders expres...

Somascan fathers at Spearwood parish prepare to celebrate their saints feast day marking 500 years since their patron's liberation from imprisonment. St Jerome Emiliani (1481-1537) was no plastic saint - fallen one day and holy the next. When Our Lady visited him in prison and freed him from captivity, his ascent to sanctity was anything but immediate, Somascan priest Fr Johnson Malayil ...

With the university sector moving to a full demand-driven funding system in 2012, in which public institutions will be able to leverage their status and scale to chase additional enrolments, the federal government will help level the playing field for the University of Notre Dame Australia through extra Commonwealth-supported places. The private Catholic university estimates the additional f...

The Melbourne archdiocese’s process found his story of sexual abuse true; the Adelaide archdiocese’s process has found his complaint without substance. Three months ago the Traditional Anglican Communion’s prelate John Hepworth, a former Catholic priest, went public with his tale of more than a decade of sexual abuse by older seminarians and priests from the time he entered, at the age of 15...