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Tuesday 5 May 2009
Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Monsignor Les Tomlinson as Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne.
The appointment was announced in Rome at 12pm on Tuesday 5 May 2009 (8pm AEST).
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Friday 1 May 2009
Australia’s lowest-paid workers should not have to carry the costs of job protection, the Chairman of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council (ACSJC), Bishop Christopher Saunders, says in his annual Pastoral Letter for the Feast of St Joseph the Worker, held today (1 May).
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Friday 1 May 2009
Catholics on a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean are rejoicing after hearing that their church will be rebuilt in the wake of a devastating tsunami which ravaged the Solomon Islands.
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Friday 1 May 2009
The Vatican’s press office has released Pope Benedict’s prayer intentions for the month of May. The Holy Father is praying that the laity enourage vocations and that the Church be unified in its efforts to evangelise.
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Wednesday 29 April 2009
The Archbishop of Mexico City, Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, is encouraging the faithful to pray to Our Lady of Guadalupe for an end to the swine flu epidemic that has taken the lives of more than 100 people in the country.
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Wednesday 29 April 2009
If parents want their children to carry the Catholic faith from childhood to adulthood, take them to Mass, say a U.S. bishops' conference spokesman.
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Tuesday 28 April 2009
Caritas Australia is calling for public and further Government support to the hundreds of thousands of Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Northern Sri Lanka.
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