CCI Giving, the charitable foundation of Catholic Church Insurance (CCI), is today announcing its Impact Grants Program partnership with the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR) for a new national grants program called ‘In a Good Place’.
Running up to 90 kilometres a week on the dry, dusty tracks of outback South Australia, young Indigenous man Zibeon Fielding cuts a lonely figure.
Earlier this month, Archbishop Mark Coleridge was elected president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. Currently the Archbishop of Brisbane, he previously served as an Auxiliary Bishop in Melbourne and as Archbishop of Canberra-Goulburn. In this conversation with the ACBC Communications Director Gavin Abraham, he speaks about his appointment at a critical time for the Catholic Church in Australia.
The Adelaide Archdiocese has participated in a pilot audit of child protection policies and practices by the new national safeguarding body, Catholic Professional Standards Ltd (CPSL).
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has elected Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane as president of the Conference.
The 160th anniversary of the death of Bishop Francis Murphy, the first bishop of Adelaide, was commemorated in St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral on April 26.
The Catholic Church’s new safeguarding body has released draft National Catholic Safeguarding Standards which will be used to gauge the capacity of the Catholic Church to provide safe places for children and vulnerable adults.
Several parishes in the Adelaide Archdiocese are taking part in a world-wide initiative to pray the rosary.
The Federal Government’s recent withdrawal of financial support to some asylum seekers is another level of “cruelty” that is causing “extreme anxiety” as they struggle to find ways to survive, according to Justice for Refugees SA.
Children who are the victims of cyberbullying are often depressed, self-harming and having suicidal thoughts, yet they won’t tell their parents about the online abuse for fear of having their technology taken away, a public forum has been told.