Guiding principal: Dan McMahon says “the formation of hearts and minds and souls" is the core business of Catholic schools....
Faiths united: one of many multi-faith actions held across Australia today. Church bells tolled, and temple gongs sounded during multi-faith...
The Catholic education sector has welcomed a state government decision to review sexual education in schools, particularly teaching sexual consent. “All...
Juggling act: "work and family life is not easy" By Emilie Ng YEARS ago I confessed to a male friend...
Caring support: John, Paul and Neil are long time members of Catholic Psychiatric Pastoral Care and say they feel like...
Saying farewell: Pope Francis boards his return flight from Iraq after an historic state visit to the Biblical land. HUNGARIAN...
Scholarships: St Peter Claver College students at the University of Southern Queensland. QUEENSLAND Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Foundation has...
Pope Francis arrives in a golf cart to visit the destroyed Al-Tahera Syriac Catholic Church in Mosul on March 7....
Brisbane’s newly commissioned Plenary Council members are (from left): Fr Dan Ryan, Sr Maeve Heaney, Archbishop Mark Coleridge, Mrs Liliana...
Prayerful project: Brisbane’s Lawrie Knott has curated a useful prayer book for educators and children. A new prayer book aims...
Running support: Thousands turn out to raise a record-breaking amount for breast cancer treatment and research. NEARLY 14,000 participants in...
Oliva with her husband Thomas and sons Tumaini (7) and Shedrack (2) outside their home in Karatu District in Tanzania....
Tough lesson: Mary Chol remembers her mother saying she wasn’t allowed to go to school, yet her brothers went to...
Racing industry in mourning: Fr Peter Gillam (left) and his very close long-term friend Archbishop John Bathersby, who died a...
Women in the Church: Lighting candles during a prayer service in Kiev, Ukraine. Photo: CNS THIS year on International Women's...
Pope Francis participates in a memorial prayer for the victims of the war at Hosh al-Bieaa (church square) in Mosul,...
Choir members take a selfie in front of an image of Pope Francis before the pope's celebration of Mass in...
Pope Francis arrives for an interreligious meeting on the plain of Ur near Nasiriyah, Iraq. Photo: CNS TRAVELLING to the...
Pope Francis signs a book with a message for Syriac Catholics in Baghdad. Also pictured, from left: Syriac Catholic Patriarch...
Parramatta bishop Vincent Long blesses the St Patrick's bells before their installation. THERE’S a new sound ringing out in Sydney’s...
Paris Mass: Priests and nuns pray during a Mass at Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais church in Paris. Photo: CNS CATHOLIC clergy in France...
Workers repair the doorway of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Qaraqosh, Iraq. Pope Francis plans to visit Qaraqosh...
Acting in faith: Caitlin Swan is the writer and star of Katie and Koco, a television series on Shalom World...
Lifesaving combination: mother and daughter work together to tackle health issues. KENDAL Fraser and her mum Rene Thompson know they...
A group of nuns wait in line to vote in El Salvador’s capital San Salvador. Photo: CNS El Salvador’s President...
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