The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has argued for a five percent rise in the national minimum wage. The Conference recently lodged a submission to the Fair Work Commission’s annual wage review through the Australian Catholic Council for Employment Relations, in partnership with Australian Catholic University. Such a move would provide for an increase in the national minimum wage ...

An invitation to listen and to act. Image: Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. Australia’s Catholic bishops have urged courage and tenderness in addressing the nation’s cost-of-living crisis in their latest social justice statement, The Cost of our Living: Economic and Social Justice for the Common Good. “Across Australia, many of our sisters and brothers are burdened by the rising c...

A survey conducted by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference’s Bishops Commission for Evangelisation, Laity and Ministry has found Catholic clergy enjoy a strong sense of wellbeing. A total of 825 priests and deacons participated in the survey to determine how they can be better supported and better serve their communities in turn. In a second phase of the study, 78 priests and deacons ...

A schoolboy at the time of the Vietnam War, Bishop Sproxton noted that even then, he was questioning what he was seeing and asking – is there no other way than war and conflict?

The Sunday of the Word of God, instituted by Pope Francis in 2019, is meant to encourage all Catholics to know the Sacred Scriptures and their central role in the life of the church and the Christian faith.