Australia

A LABOR promise to review the National Disability Insurance Scheme is an important first step in ensuring the sustainability and...

AUSTRALIA’s Catholic bishops are calling for a shakeup of the country's politics with a focus on the common good of...

FORTY days and forty nights. That’s the long and grinding timeline ahead for Australia’s 2022 federal election, with campaigning expect...

LISMORE'S Luke and Elissa Virtue lost everything when flood water rose two metres above the floorboards in their elevated house,...

THICK early morning traffic crawls into Lismore - tradesmen in utes and vans, and army trucks heading towards the once...

CATHOLIC peak bodies have reacted to federal treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s 2022-23 budget – here are the winners and losers for...

A BIG boost in funding to suicide prevention service Lifeline “will save lives” according to the organisation, as Australia battles...

AUSTRALIA'S Catholic bishops have welcomed a Federal Government decision that will see 450 asylum-seekers resettled in New Zealand but say...

ALMOST 3 million Australians, including nearly 750,000 children, are living in poverty according to a major new report. According to...

AFTER devastating flood waters swept through Lismore, the city’s Trinity Catholic College today reopened for students on campus at Southern...

SYNOD of Bishops organisers have encouraged everyone to have their voice heard on crucial Church issues as submissions close this...

ONE Brisbane Catholic community is leading by example with a grassroots appeal to aid flood victims in northern New South...

Australia’s disability sector faces a mass exodus of support workers that could leave vital services at breaking point. According to...

As the scale of flood destruction in Lismore and the surrounding Northern Rivers region becomes clear, Lismore Bishop Greg Homeming...

By Dr Clare Burns SHANE Keith Warne was known as being a soul of indiscretion.  He was also known for...

TODAY is Ash Wednesday and it marks the official launch of Caritas Australia’s annual Project Compassion appeal that runs for...

ALREADY many Brisbane petrol pumps are pushing above $1.80 a litre but with war breaking out between Russia and Ukraine,...

AUSTRALIAN Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy vicar general Fr Simon Ckuj said his community was apprehensive and angry as Russia escalated its...

MISSIONARY priest Tim Norton has been ordained as an auxiliary bishop for Brisbane archdiocese – the first member of the...

THE Chair of Catholic Social Services Australia, Francis Sullivan, says it is a disgrace that the companies running Australia’s offshore...

A group of Christian leaders including a Brigidine sister have taken turns to be locked in a cage outside a...

A coalition of human rights organisations, church groups and academics are demanding the federal government strengthen Australia's modern slavery laws...

MERCY Sister Janet Mead, who earned gold records for her 1974 hit version of the Our Father, died on Australia...

ON Friday, when Maryborough parish priest Fr Lucius Edomobi leads a procession celebrating the 150th anniversary of the city’s St...

“THIS unspeakable cruelty must never be repeated,” Pope Francis said in the lead-up to International Holocaust Remembrance Day today. The...