AUSTRALIANS are pausing for a moment of silence and paying their respects in small ways on today’s National Day of Mourning ...

MORE than 200 Maryborough families have found themselves in a better position ahead of the 2026 school year through Centacare ...

POPE Leo XIV has proclaimed a Franciscan Jubilee Year to mark 800 years since the death of St Francis of Assisi and ...

MATER announced on Monday it is purchasing Healthscope’s Gold Coast Private Hospital. The acquisition comes after Healthscope ...

PEAK Catholic education groups are challenging a new report on the fee structure in faith schools across the country. Futurity Investment’s recently released Cost of Education Report 202C said ...

BRISBANE Archbishop Shane Mackinlay encouraged leaders of Queensland’s new peak Catholic education body to keep the young ...

HOBART priest Fr Mark William Freeman has been appointed the ninth Bishop of Ballarat by Pope Leo XIV. Pope Leo announced the appointment in Rome on Wednesday night. Bishop-elect Freeman, 66, ...

MILLIONS of people have been displaced as the conflict in Sudan escalates nearly three years on. About 33.7 million people ...

By Ashley Prisk JANUARY opens like a doorway into possibility, a threshold where routines return and hopes take shape. As the ...

RETIRED Brisbane priest Fr Ivan Hernon, 99, died last week on January 1.   A message from vicar general Fr Peter Dillon said ...

POPE Leo XIV ended his first extraordinary consistory on Thursday calling for the College of Cardinals to act as a “community of faith” rather than a “mere body of experts”. “We may not always find ...

By Carol Glatz BAPTISING one’s children is as essential as providing them with food and clothing, Pope Leo XIV told parents. ...