Pope Leo XIV has appointed Monsignor Stuart Hall as Bishop to the Military Ordinariate of Australia. He is currently Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne. Ordained a priest in 1987, Bishop-elect Hall served for 22 years as a Navy chaplain in naval establishments throughout Australia and aboard fleet units, deploying on operational service, including to Timor-Leste and the Middle East...

Those who are directly affected have not been adequately consulted on the most consequential features of this bill, Bishop Harris said. Photo: Adobe. The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and Catholic Health Australia have urged the Australian Government to review its proposed changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme to ensure the most vulnerable are not left behind. Chai...

Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB spoke to the Bishops of Australia during the formal Opening of the Bishops Conference Plenary Meeting, May 2026 at St Mary MacKillop Place, North Sydney. Photo: ACBC. As we gather this evening to mark the beginning of our time together with the Mass of the Holy Spirit, deeply conscious of the great privilege and heavy responsibility we bear as those wh...

Following their call earlier in the year for a five per cent rise in the national minimum wage, the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has welcomed the decision from the Fair Work Commission to provide a 4.75 per cent pay rise to almost three million workers. The commission has announced the national minimum wage will increase to $1004.90 per week, or $26.44 per hour, from 1 July. This ...

The Eastern Catholic Churches in Australia have journeyed from being listed as migrant chaplaincies to being accepted as integral within the Catholic Church, Melkite Bishop Robert Rabbat has said. During their May plenary meeting in Sydney, members of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference gathered in Mary MacKillop Memorial Chapel for a Mass celebrated in the Melkite tradition. Melk...

Australia’s Catholic bishops have been told Myanmar is going through a “polycrisis” five years after the military coup. Speaking on the opening day of the biannual plenary of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference in Sydney on 8 May, Cardinal Charles Bo, Archbishop of Yangon, said his country was going through simultaneous economic, employment, social, health and education crises. Pr...

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has been re-elected President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. Auxiliary Bishop Nelson Po has been appointed to the Bishops Commission for Social Justice, Mission and Service. Photo: Aaron Kong/Archdiocese of Perth. Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has been re-elected President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference during the May ...

Representatives of more than a dozen Christian denominations joined with members of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference on Tuesday 12 May for an historic ecumenical worship service. Chair of the Bishops Commission for Christian Unity and Interreligious Dialogue, Bishop Michael Kennedy, led the gathering in Sydney’s Mary MacKillop Memorial Chapel. The service was adapted from resou...

Across Australia, many young people are striving to find their place in a labour market that is increasingly complex and uncertain. Photo: Adobe. Australians have been urged to use the Feast of St Joseph the Worker (1 May) to reflect on young peoples’ struggle for secure work. Bishops Commission for Social Justice, Mission and Service chair Bishop Tim Harris said the Catholic Church had ...

Archbishop Amel Nona, leader of the Chaldean Diocese of Saint Thomas the Apostle in Australia and New Zealand, has been elected Patriarch of the Chaldean Church. On 12 April, the Synod of Bishops of the Chaldean Church elected him Patriarch at its legal session in Rome. Archbishop Nona, who chose for himself the name of His Beatitude Patriarch Mar Paul III Nona, was born in 1976 i...