Australia

AS Lebanon's financial crisis deepens Caritas Australia is urging Australians to donate towards its emergency and long-term response in the country. About 90...

By Debbie Cramsie HEADING off to celebrate Mass, Fr Harold Camonias packs his car with all the necessities, including firewood,...

ONE in four Australian teenagers report experiencing psychological distress in 2020, according to a new joint report by Mission Australia...

Australia "has a problem" with the way it treats women, Prime Minister Scott Morrison conceded as he opened a virtual two-day...

By Archbishop Mark Coleridge THERE have been times when I wondered if we would ever make it. But after all...

NEARLY three million adult Australians have experienced sexual violence during their lifetime, including sexual assault or child sexual abuse, yet...

AUSTRALIA must move forward as a nation if it is to reduce disadvantage for First Nation peoples, Brisbane Archbishop Mark...

LONG-SERVING winemaker at Sevenhill Cellars in the Clare Valley, Jesuit Brother John May, died on August 18 aged 92.  Br...

AUSTRALIAN Catholic Bishops Conference president Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge said the Australian Government should provide at least 20,000 humanitarian places...

AUSTRALIANS are being called to unite in prayer this week for those in need and distress caused by COVID-19. The...

ALL is ready to deliver the first assembly of the Plenary Council wholly online in October.  With New South Wales...

WILCANNIA-FORBES Diocese has announced what is believed to be the world's first kindergarten to Year 12 school to be named...

CATHOLICS are being urged to tick the “Catholic” box when they fill out their Census form on Tuesday, August 10,...

FIRES, floods, droughts and disease are becoming less predictable and more intense, the Church’s 2021 Social Justice Statement says as...

WHEN a state premier declares a pandemic lockdown and mandates people to stay at home, what does that mean for...

THE Prime Minister is being urged to support action on human rights violations in West Papua when he meets with...

ONE child a week is born with a severe form of Mitochondrial Disease in Australia. The disease affects the mitochondria...

THREE soccer players from neighbouring Catholic schools in Sydney’s south are members of Australia's Olyroos soccer squad at the Tokyo...

JUST 0.16 of a second separated gold and silver. That’s how tight the finish was for Brisbane’s former Catholic schoolboy...

This Sunday is the inaugural World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly and Catholic ministries are being encouraged to find...

GERARD Lai will hopefully be a priest by 2023 and the sheer thought begs the question – how well does...

CATHOLIC bishops in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands have demanded resettlement of offshore asylum seekers exactly eight years after...

“HEAL Country, heal our nation”, the theme of this year’s NAIDOC Week, invites all Australians to embrace First Nations’ cultural...

THE largest grouping of non-government aged care providers urged National Cabinet to extend the mandatory vaccination of the aged care...

CATHOLICS from South East Queensland will mask-up at Masses across the next two weeks as three new local cases triggered...