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Thursday 13 December 2012

POPE Benedict XVI is officially on Twitter under @Pontifex and has more than 1 million followers after his first tweet in Rome overnight. Watch video..

Pope names new nuncio to Australia

Wedenesday 12 December 2012

POPE Benedict XVI has named 58-year-old English Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher as the new nuncio to Australia.

The feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Wednesday 12 December 2012

TODAY is the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Read a translation from the original text detailing the narrative of the apparitions of Our Lady in 1531. Watch video...

Wednesday 12 December 2012

ARCHBISHOP Denis Hart, President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) announced today that the Honourable Barry O'Keefe AM QC and Mr Francis Sullivan will be chair and CEO respectively of the Truth, Justice and Healing Council which will oversee the Church's engagement with the Royal Commission and the pastoral and other ramifications that have arisen from the sexual abuse scandal.

The Australia Education Bill 2012

Monday 10 December 2012

“THE legislation introduced into Parliament at the end of last month by the Prime Minister charts an ambitious course for school reform”, said Mrs Therese Temby, Chair of the National Catholic Education Commission (NCEC).

Australian Catholic Bishops meet

Friday 7 December 2012

THE November meeting of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference was held from 26-30 November at Mary MacKillop Place in North Sydney to discuss issues including the Year of Grace in Australia and the Royal Commission into institutional child sexual abuse.

Friday 7 December 2012

SISTER Angela Ryan, Executive Officer at the National Committee for Professional Standards which is a joint committee of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and Catholic Religious Australia, was interviewed recently about her work with victims of sexual abuse.

Catholic jazz pianist Dave Brubeck dies

Thursday 6 December 2012

DAVE Brubeck, the influential and prolific pianist whose composition "Take Five" became a standard in the annals of jazz, died at age 91, one day before his 92nd birthday.

Pope Benedict's Advent reflections

Thursday 6 November 2012

AT his Wednesday 5 December general audience, Pope Benedict XVI encouraged Christians to live out their faith during Advent. WATCH VIDEO

Tuesday 4 November 2012

BENEDICT XVI has called for greater attention to be shown to people with disabilities saying " Any person, even with physical or mental limitations, even if severe, have an invaluable worth."

Monday 3 December 2012

THE tradition has been cradled in history. For nearly two thousand years now, Christians around the world have found ways to depict the birth of the Christ child in a little town in Bethlehem.

Monday 3 December 2012

WHEN it comes to ambassadors, no one travels farther than John McCarthy. He was recently appointed as the second resident ambassador to represent Australia before the Holy See.

Friday 30 November 2012

THE Australian Catholic Bishops Conference will set up a new Council for the Royal Commission the Bishops Conference announced this morning.

Thursday 29 November 2012

AT Pope Benedict XVI's 40th general audience of the year more than 5,000 pilgrims listened as his Holiness highlighted the plight of AIDS victims as well as the importance of families speaking openly about the faith within the home.

Advent on the Go with Caritas Australia

Wednesday 28 November 2012

DUE to overwhelming popularity, Caritas Australia’s Advent calendar based on the ancient Christian symbol of the Jesse tree has returned for Christmas 2012.

Monday 26 November 2012

WITH Social Inclusion Week during this week, the St Vincent de Paul National Council of Australia is highlighting the plight of Newstart recipients ahead of the handing down of the Senate Inquiry’s findings into the adequacy of Newstart payment on Thursday.

Monday 26 November 2012

THE International Day of People with Disability is celebrated on 3 December each year. This year's celebrations will centre on the theme of, "Removing barriers to create an inclusive and accessible society for all."

Crisis spreads in the Congo

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ay 26 November 2012

THE Presidents of the Bishops’ Conferences of Africa and Bishop Presidents of National Caritas in Africa have expresses outrage and shock at the escalating armed violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo which is causing human tragedy on a major scale.

Monday 26 November 2012

The Catholic Church in Victoria is calling for the implementation of its proposals for mandatory reporting by ministers of religion, and for a new protocol for reporting offenders to police that protects the privacy of victims who want anonymity.

Friday 23 November 2012

JOSEPHITE leader, Sr Anne Derwin says ‘Human life, human rights and compassion must be placed ahead of political expediency' in the latest round of parliamentary Asylum seeker chaos.

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