ACBC President and Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB with Pope Francis in 2022. Photo: CNS/Vatican Media. Australian Catholic Bishops Conference President, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB, says Pope Francis will be remembered as a man of simplicity, humility and compassion. Pope Francis, born Jorge Maria Bergoglio, became the first non-European pope in centuries, the first Latin Am...

Pope Francis gives a Byzantine headdress called a koukoulion to new Cardinal Mykola Bychok, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Eparchy of Sts. Peter and Paul of Melbourne, Australia, during a consistory to create new cardinals on 7 December 2024, in St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Photo: CNS/Lola Gomez. Christ is Risen! On this Bright Paschal Monday (Easter Monday), when we continu...

Fr Joseph Laundy being interviewed by Le-An Duong on his vocation journey into priesthood at Mater Dei College. Photo: Supplied. On Friday, 14 March 2024, the Perth Vocations Office hosted a Vocations Conversations session at Mater Dei College. Led by Perth Vocations Director, Fr Joseph Laundy, and Dr Debra Sayce, Head of Mission Enhancement and Outreach – Archdiocesan Agencies, the even...

The new site provides details of cathedrals, shrines, churches and pilgrimages identified by local churches across Australia as fulfilling the requirement for obtaining a plenary indulgence.

Father Peter Murphy studied agriculture and worked as a field agronomist in Melbourne before entering the seminary.

In releasing the 2024 annual report, Group CEO Bryan Pyne acknowledged the difficulties facing the Australian private health care sector while anticipating a positive future.

All past and present Legion of Mary members are welcome to come together Saturday 9 November to commemorate the life of founder Frank Duff.

The Ordinary Council, chaired by the Holy Father, will play a fundamental role in the implementation of the synodal process on synodality and the preparation of the next Synod.

Brisbane Auxiliary Bishop Tim Norton SVD has been appointed the third Bishop of Broome. Photo: Giovanni Portelli. Pope Francis has appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Brisbane, the Most Reverend Timothy Norton SVD, to be the third Bishop of Broome, Monday 14 October 2024. Bishop Norton was born in Sydney in 1958 and initially trained as a physiotherapist, working in inner-city Darlinghurst wit...

Cardinal-designate Mykola Bychok, a Redemptorist, will be the youngest cardinal in the Catholic Church, and only the eighth cardinal in both the history of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and of Australia.