The following pastoral letter has been issued by Bishop of Broome Tim Norton after the delivery of the District Court of Western Australia jury verdict in the Christopher Saunders case. To my sisters ...

This is the full text of the McCosker Oration delivered to mark the 70th anniversary of Catholic Social Services Australia by former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull. Thank you, Jerry Nockles for that ...

This is the full text of the address by the chair of the Bishops Commission for Social Justice, Mission and Service, Bishop ...

Australia’s Catholic bishops have urged a renewed focus on ways to make Australia a more cohesive society. Each year since ...

Australians have been urged to take up the invitation of Pope Leo XIV to pray for peace on April 11. Pope Leo will celebrate a prayer vigil for peace in St Peter’s Basilica in Rome on Saturday, April ...

Pope Francis has this evening appointed Perth-based priest, Fr George Kolodziej SDS, to be the fifth Bishop of Bunbury. Fr George, 56, was born in Dobra, Poland, and has been the Superior of the ...

The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has launched a new website – with the address catholic.au – bringing together the catholic.org.au and catholicaustralia.com.au websites. The site, known as ...

Renowned Australian Biblical scholar Fr Francis Moloney SDB has died in his home city of Melbourne aged 85. “The death of Father Francis Moloney SDB brings to a close a life of remarkable commitment, ...

An impassioned call for “a prayer for the future of our common home, a Gospel for the home of our future generations” was made during the final reporting back on small group discernment by Plenary ...

Pope Francis has appointed Sydney priest Fr Danny Meagher, the former rector of Good Shepherd Seminary, an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Sydney. Fr Meagher was born in West Wyalong in the New ...

A Statement from the Bishops Commission for Social Justice, Mission and Service: In the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, we are reminded we belong to one human family which is best nurtured by a ...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Monsignor Stuart Hall as Bishop to the Military Ordinariate of Australia. Ordained priest in 1987, Bishop-elect Hall served for 22 years as a Navy chaplain in naval ...