Australia

Desperate need: Vinnies has launched an appeal after 18,000 flood victims evacuated in New South Wales. By Mark Bowling THE...

Deacon Gary Stone: enormous angst amongst the veteran community By Mark Bowling A LEADING veteran’s advocate has warned that if...

Year of the Family: Pope Francis greets family members as he arrives to lead his general audience in the San...

PNG health emergency: Caritas Australia is prioritising preventative health measures including community education and the distribution of protective personal equipment....

Alarming: The pressures of long hours and exposure to stress mean principals are at risk. OUR School principals found 2020...

Faiths united: one of many multi-faith actions held across Australia today. Church bells tolled, and temple gongs sounded during multi-faith...

Women in the Church: Lighting candles during a prayer service in Kiev, Ukraine. Photo: CNS THIS year on International Women's...

Parramatta bishop Vincent Long blesses the St Patrick's bells before their installation. THERE’S a new sound ringing out in Sydney’s...

Acting in faith: Caitlin Swan is the writer and star of Katie and Koco, a television series on Shalom World...

Prime Minister's assessment: "The findings of this commission work is as shocking as I feared it would be and frankly...

On location: Wollongong Bishop Brian Mascord on set for the filming of Mass for You at Home, which will now...

New finding: More doctors and nurses needed to work in palliative care. AUSTRALIA has only half the number of palliative...

Decades old: The first edition of The Catholic Leader was published on December 5, 1929. The publication is 92 years...

Bishops' letter: Catholic Schools have much to celebrate, but also current challenges. Photo: Mark Bowling THE Australian Catholic Bishops’ have...

Better choice: “Much of our chocolate is made using cocoa beans harvested by children, often in the West African region.” ...

Sacred way: Christians carry a cross during a procession along Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem’s Old City on Good Friday. HOLY...

Musical monk: Benedictine Father Robert Nixon playing the piano at New Norcia monastery. Fr Nixon will return to his home...

Fair work: at the heart of Catholic industrial relations demands. KEY Catholic organisations are demanding urgent industrial relations reform to...

Modern saint: An image of Sudanese St Josephine Bakhita is carried in procession during a prayer service led by Pope...

AFP: No criminal misconduct has been found in huge payments made from the Vatican to Australia. THE Australian Federal Police...

Cry for freedom: It has made the call while welcoming the Government’s recent decision to release 58 refugees, previously transferred...

LAST year COVID-19 forced most of Catholic volunteers working overseas to return home to Australia.  Now Palms Australia, the organisation...

Raising a voice: The Josephites said they supported the Uluru Statement’s “call for truth-telling, for a Makarrata Commission to supervise...

Building unity: Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann is the 2021 Northern Territory Senior Australian of the Year. ABORIGINAL elder Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann, 2021 Senior...

No arms: Demonstrators in Washington protest nuclear weapons across the globe. Australia’s bishops have taken the lead of Pope Francis,...