The Australian Christian Lobby has welcomed the Victorian Government's statement of support for Professor Kuravilla George as a member of Victoria's Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC).
For the St Vincent de Paul Society, every week is volunteer week as without the 50,000 volunteers and members that turn up each day, week or when called, to help the poor and marginalised of Australia, they would just not exist.
The President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, Archbishop Denis Hart, announced on Friday 11 May that Pope Benedict XVI intends to announce the establishment in Australia of a Personal Ordinariate for Former Anglicans to commence on 15th June 2012.
CARITAS Australia has urged the Federal Government to keep its commitment to the world’s most marginalised people after announcing a substantial drop in the forecast foreign aid budget tonight.
Catholic Health Australia says the Gillard Government has fulfilled their promise of a Budget surplus by slashing spending on sub-acute hospital beds.
St Vincent de Paul Society Chief Executive, Dr John Falzon, has sharply criticised the failure of the 2012 Budget to deliver relief for people who are outside the labour market.
Monday 7 May 2012
Archbishop Denis Hart, Metropolitan Archbishop of Melbourne has been elected as the President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. The election took place at the Australian Bishops Plenary in Sydney last Friday 4 May.
Friday 4 May 2012
Members of the Australian Catholic media gathered in Sydney from 30 April to 2 May for the Australian Catholic Media Congress, entitled 'Communicating the Word: Timeless Messages, New Media'.
Monday, 30 April 2012
A NEW approach is needed in labour market policy that would place the dignity of the worker at the centre of deliberations on pay and conditions, says Chairman of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, Bishop Christopher Saunders.
Monday 23 April 2012
Catholic Health Australia CEO Martin Laverty said one of the stories that many have missed in the Government’s aged care reforms announced on Friday is the improvement the changes will bring about for some of the country’s poorer and more vulnerable residents.
Thursday 26 April 2012
In his latest general audience at St Peter's Square in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI, has spoken about the ability of prayer enabling us to see things differently.
Monday, 23 April 2012
‘I was hungry and you fed me.’ Mt 25:35
CATHOLIC MISSION today launched its 2012 Church Appeal with the theme ‘I was hungry and you fed me.’ This campaign will appear in parishes around Australia throughout the coming months and aims to highlight the missionary response to both the spiritual and physical needs of the people in this humanitarian crisis that has crippled Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa following the devastating drought and famine.
Wednesday 18 April 2012
Magadan, Russia, care is not only given to women who have already had an abortion, but also to expectant mothers who are desperate and do not know how they are to cope with life with a child.