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RITAS Australia chief executive officer Kirsty Robertson has called for an immediate response for ugent famine prevention relief after meeting with Caritas Ethiopia to discuss responses to the famine crisis in the Horn of Africa. "The food crisis is acute,...

On day 3 of the Plenary Council a "crisis" erupted inside the assembly about the role that women should play in the Catholic Church in Australia. The assembly program for the 277 assembly members was put on hold after a final vote by bishops rejected...

POPE Francis has condemned the "senseless" mass shooting that killed seven people and injured at least 40 others at a Fourth of July parade in Chicago on Monday. In a telegram sent to Chicago Archbishop Cardinal Blase Cupich, Pope Francis said he joined...

AMIDST global debate about the role of women in the Catholic Church, Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge says it will be "a close call" today whether a motion to support women becoming Church deacons is supported at Australia's historic Plenary Council...

POPE Francis has said he has no plans to resign soon and that his knee injury is healing. Reports of Pope Francis resigning began to spread last month in light of three events to happen in late August, including the creation of new cardinals and a day...

Part of the Australian Catholic Church's reconciliation and healing will be to introduce indigenous culture into the Catholic liturgy, as well as memorials for the "awful harm and trauma" of child sexual abuse committed by priests and Church workers...

BRISBANE auxiliary Bishop Tim Norton shared his experience of how the missionary heart of children helped curb gang violence on the streets of his parish in Mexico City. Bishop Norton was the keynote speaker on the first day of Xavier School of Mission,...

A JUMPING castle, a petting zoo, a face painting stall brought hundreds of people of all ages to St Stephen's Cathedral for Brisbane's part in the World Meeting of Families on June 25. Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge celebrated Mass to open the festivities...

UNITED States priest Fr Mike Schmitz, the voice behind the "Bible in a Year" podcast, is set to launch a new "Catechism in a Year" podcast from January 1 next year. For the 365 days of 2023, Fr Schmitz will read through the entire Catechism of the Catholic...

THE Second Assembly of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia begins in earnest today with more than 270 Church members expected to endorse two motions of national importance - support for the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and an apology to First Nations...