Talk to us

CathNews, the most frequently visited Catholic website in Australia, is your daily news service featuring Catholics and Catholicism from home and around the world, Mass on Demand and on line, prayer, meditation, reflections, opinion, and reviews. And, what's more - it's free!

Social Justice Social Services

Jesuit Social Services calls for a minister for children

Jesuit Social Services has called on the Albanese Government to appoint a minister for children and invest in evidence-backed intervention to reduce family violence, child sexual abuse, and address failing youth justice systems.

Bishops Social Justice

Bali 5 message Bishop Harris waited two decades to hear

On Sunday afternoon, Townsville Bishop Timothy Harris received an anonymous text message he’d spent nearly two decades waiting for: “Wheels up, the Bali 5 are on their way back to Australia”. Source: The Guardian.

Politics Social Justice

Remaining Bali Nine members return to Australia after 19 years in Indonesian prison

The remaining five members of the Bali Nine have returned to Australia after spending two decades in an Indonesian prison for their roles in a botched drug smuggling operation. Source: ABC News.

Social Justice

Burke heads to Indonesia to discuss transfer of Bali 9 members

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke will discuss the fate of the remaining Bali Nine prisoners in a critical meeting with the Indonesian Government set to take place later this week. Source: News.com.au.

Social Justice

Bishop Harris welcomes news of possible deal on Bali 9 members

Townsville Bishop Timothy Harris has cautiously welcomed news that the surviving Bali Nine members will be repatriated to Australia in a deal with Indonesia. Source: The Guardian.

Religious Orders Social Justice

Catholic Religious calls for national overhaul of youth justice system

Catholic Religious Australia called for a nationally coordinated reform of the youth justice system in a recent submission to a Senate Inquiry into Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system. 

Laity Social Justice

Young Christian Workers ‘immerse’ themselves in Indonesia

Two Australian Young Christian Workers leaders travelled to Indonesia to take part in YCW’s Continental Cultural Immersion program. Source: YCW Australia.

Social Justice

Bishops say action required to achieve global peace

In this year’s Social Justice Statement, Australia’s Catholic bishops say peace is possible if people commit to speaking the truth and redouble efforts to end war. Source: ACBC Media Blog.

Social Justice Youth

Youth justice backflip will see ‘more kids reoffending more often’

The Victorian Government’s reversal of its commitment to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14 by 2027 is a deeply troubling culmination of harmful rhetoric and disregard for evidence, says Catholic Social Services Victoria.