Youth Festival will conclude Jubilee Year celebrations in 2025
Australia’s premier gathering for young Catholics, the Australian Catholic Youth Festival, will now conclude the Church’s celebration of the international Jubilee Year in December 2025. ... Read More
Bishops support Catholic schools with guide on gender, identity
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has released a guide on gender and identity to support Catholic schools in responding to the individual social and pastoral ... Read More
Deeper discernment invited during Plenary Council
Members of the Plenary Council are being invited to spend additional time to discern after two motions did not achieve a qualified majority in voting ... Read More
Members reconsider motions on ‘Witnessing to the Equal Dignity of Women and Men’
The Members of the Plenary Council have spent Wednesday afternoon working together to reconsider a pair of motions that were not passed earlier in the ... Read More
President gives opening address to second council assembly
At the Council’s opening session on Monday morning, the Members of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia were invited to carry “a deep consciousness of ... Read More
Members set to gather for Second Plenary Assembly
Plenary Council president Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB The four-year journey of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia is about to reach its high point, with ... Read More
Archbishop Balvo takes up appointment as Nuncio to Australia
Apostolic Nuncio (middle) with Fr Tony Percy, VG and Archbishop Prowse Archbishop Charles Balvo has arrived as Pope Francis’ ambassador to Australia in what the ... Read More