Thousands of Maronite Catholics shut down the streets of the Sydney suburb of Punchbowl to welcome relics of Lebanon's most well-known saint to their new permanent home in Australia.
Queues of faithful braced the rain May 8 along the avenue where St. Charbel's
The joy of Eastertide has turned to shock and bewilderment across Sydney's Catholic community in the wake of a deadly knife attack at Bondi Junction Westfield shopping center April 13, in which seven people were killed and a dozen injured, including a
The Australian Catholic University's Center for Liturgy offered a training program for lay liturgical ministers of the Word in Nigeria. The program, delivered online, aims to equip participants with spiritual and technical skills needed to effectively proclaim the Word and serve in
The Australian bishops' conference president, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe of Perth, has said the investigation into allegations against retired Bishop Christopher Saunders of Broome is "right and proper, and indeed necessary" after he was arrested by Western Australian police on nearly 20 charges
Two hundred and fifty of Sister Cecilia's students are taking part in the Jubilate Deo program, which seeks to teach Gregorian chant to thousands of school students in the Archdiocese of Sydney, as part of a "critical part of going deeper in
Proposals from the Synod on Synodality can be judged by whether they call men and women to holiness, as the church does more work "to ensure a genuinely Catholic understanding of synodality, inclusion and discernment," Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney has written.
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Australian youth came a long way to participate in World Youth Day in Lisbon. But it wasn't just the length of the flight. They embarked on a true pilgrimage and made the most of it -- with many of them visiting the
Australian Archbishop Mark Coleridge will conduct an investigation into retired Bishop Christopher Saunders of Broome, using a process established by Pope Francis in 2019.
Young Aboriginal men from towns and bush communities in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia accused Bishop Saunders
Catholic bishops in Australia have released guidelines for the country's almost 2,000 Catholic schools on gender, urging school leaders to resist pressure to adopt the "dominant rhetoric around gender."
"Created and Loved: A guide for Catholic schools on identity and gender" outlines a
Australian Cardinal George Pell and the Archdiocese of Melbourne are being sued by the father of a choirboy that the former Vatican official was accused of molesting, resulting in his imprisonment in 2018.
The conviction of the former Vatican official was reversed on