In an exclusive interview with The Australian this week, incoming Australian Catholic Bishops Conference President and Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB says the Church’s falling support is a “wake-up call” as it works to balance its convictions with the realities of an increasingly secular nation. The Perth Archbishop said the Church needed to be faithful to its core principles a...

Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB made history this week when he was elected the new President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference.
He is the first president of the Bishops Conference from Western Australia and, as a priest of the Salesians of Don Bosco, the first member of a religious order to be elected president.

Australian Catholic Bishops Conference President and Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge has said no one political party fully embodies Catholic social teaching, offering an election statement to encourage Catholics and people of good will to reflect on the good they can do for their community by using their vote for the good of all.

ACBC President Mark Coleridge has said the task of the Church is to ask how to adapt to a changing environment in which a more counter-cultural Church cannot claim the privileges it once took for granted. Photo: Archdiocese of Brisbane. By The Southern Cross As the number of sporting events and other activities on Good Friday increases, Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, President a...

ACBC President, Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge and CRA President Br Peter Carroll FMS have this week acknowledged the “shameful past” that reveals “we let down too many children and many thousands were abused in our settings”, following publication of the fourth report from the Catholic Church to the National Office for Child. Photo: ACBC. The fourth report from the Catholic Church to ...

A new Holy Bible Contemporary English Version (CEV) Catholic Edition with Encyclopaedia written specifically for Catholic students in years five to nine, with an average reading age of 12 years – hopes to help many people, but especially the young, to see God’s face more clearly and hear His voice more deeply. Photo: Sourced. The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) have endorsed t...

The Catholic Church has welcomed Australian Government support for international efforts to amend intellectual property rights to ensure more people can access life-saving COVID-19 vaccines.

Governance and Structure were raised to the forefront of Church discussion in the findings of the Royal Commission (2017), and both are now key agenda items on the upcoming fifth Plenary Council of Australia in October 2021.

The Year of Saint Joseph will be a crucial motivator for participants of the 2021 Australian Catholic Men’s Gathering, which will be launched nationally online from 31 July.

The Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference (ACBC) has last week provided the Holy See’s observations on 12 recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse to the Australian Government.