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World Day of Migrants and Refugees to focus on right to stay
The Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development announces the theme of this year’s World Day of Migrants and Refugees focused on the right to choose migration as an option for...
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St Vincent de Paul Society Australia: An ally for gender equity
Along with encouraging the community to ‘embrace equity’, the Australian organisers of International Women’s Day (8 March) 2023 stress that ‘allies are incredibly important for the social, economic,...
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Caritas Australia thanks schools and parishes for incredible Project...
Caritas Australia’s annual Lenten fundraiser Project Compassion has been a success this year thanks to the dedication and support of over 1,700 schools and 1,200 parishes across the country. “It has...
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The unlikely hope of Easter
Stories matter. Any group blessed with a story of an unwinnable campaign won and of a victory snatched out of defeat will continue to draw strength from it. The impossible battle won, the goal after...
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The Voice: Catholic considerations
A voice said, “Cry out.” and I said, “What shall I cry?” – Isaiah 40:1 Scripture abounds with pleas from God calling on us to cry out; to challenge injustice; to hear the voices of the poor, the...
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Caritas Australia introduces Catholic Social Teaching Card Sets
Caritas Australia has launched its first-ever Catholic Social Teaching (CST) Card Sets in Australia, taking its existing Catholic Social Teaching Toolkit and resources, and creating an accessible and...
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Fr Frank Brennan SJ: How to vote on the Voice
What are Catholics to think about the proposed referendum on the Voice to Parliament? During the first year of his pontificate, Pope Francis in his Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium said: “An...
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A reflection for Pope Francis’ prayer intention for April
Pope Francis’ Intention for April: For a culture of peace and non-violence – We pray for the spread of peace and non-violence, by decreasing the use of weapons by States and citizens. In stories...
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Tributes flow following passing of Melbourne ‘larrikin priest’ Fr Bob Maguire
Fr Robert “Bob” John Thomas Maguire, priest of the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne, passed away on Wednesday 19 April at Melbourne’s Cabrini Hospital, aged 88 years. Fr Maguire entered the seminary...
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All God’s creatures have value and dignity
Catholics are called to conserve and protect even the parts of creation that are not so cute. Care for our common home, as Pope Francis frames our responsibility to care for the Earth, is central to...
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Sisters leading the climate crisis revolution
Catholic Sisters want to play a concrete role in protecting people and communities affected by the climate crisis and by biodiversity loss. A series of “Sister-led dialogues” are bringing the Sisters...
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A reflection for Anzac Day
25 April is Anzac Day At Anzac Day this year, war is more than a distant memory. Each day, the media carry stories of the war in Ukraine and speculation about the possibility of conflict with China....
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He walks among them: Remembering Father Bob
I am one of the thousands in this city who have tales to recount about Father Bob McGuire. I got to know him in 2015 when working on The Fighter, a book exploring the life of ex-boxer and youth...
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St John XXIII’s prophetic encyclical ‘Peace on Earth’ dangerously remains...
Just over 60 years ago, the earth as we know it came dangerously close to being engulfed in a nuclear fireball. In October of 1962, the United States demanded that the Soviet Union’s nuclear missile...
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To understand why we need a Voice, listen to the elders’ wisdom
Working alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and other First Nations across the Asia Pacific region for the past 30 years has taught me two strong lessons: listen and pay respect...
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Pastoral Message for the Feast of St Joseph the Worker 2023
Pastoral Message for the Feast of St Joseph the Worker 2023 Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Bishops Commission for Social Justice, Mission and Service Last year, the Australian Catholic...
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History is calling
First Nations Peoples have an inalienable right to be heard at the highest level of the nation’s governance. History is calling all of us forward, writes Sister Clare Condon SGS. On 23 March this...
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Humanity, solidarity, and shared suffering
Bishop Vincent washes the feet of inmates at Parklea Correctional Facility at Easter. Before undertaking his official duties for Maundy Thursday, Bishop Vincent Long OFM Conv, Bishop of Parramatta...
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Driver kills 8 at Texas migrant centre as border prepares for end of Title 42
Tensions were already high at the U.S.-Mexico border and they escalated May 7 after a car ran into a crowd outside a Brownsville, Texas, building that provides shelter to migrants, leaving eight dead...
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Bishops issue statement on Indigenous Voice to Parliament
As a vote on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament nears, Australia’s bishops have encouraged Catholics to read and discuss the Uluru Statement from the Heart – the document from which the Voice proposal...
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