Health & Wellbeing

An innovative new program has been launched drawing upon the rich pastoral traditions of the church to help accompany the dying People living with a...

Palliative care experts have welcomed the state government’s plans to boost the sector with an additional $743 million in funding over the next five...

A statement from the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Most Rev. Anthony Fisher OP For the past two years society has been stopped in time. We...

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Four St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, staff share their experiences during the recent lockdowns.

Juliette Kirkwood began work as a Community Care Worker in CatholicCare’s parish program a year and a half ago, but grew up in South-Western...

I’m recuperating from a nasty bout of covid. It had many unwelcome effects. Surprisingly, complete loss of smell has been if not the hardest, the saddest. I used to teach St Thomas Aquinas and enjoyed very much his profound reverence for our bodily lives. Reconciling this reverence with the even more ancient Christian commitment to […]

“At 9am the helicopters started hovering. They’d hover for the next hour, hour and a half, spotting people. “It was the very first time I...

Draft law offers no strong protections against coercion and will affect the Catholic culture of care By Brigid Meney The Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2021 will...

The last two years have seemed an endless barrage of crises that affect every aspect of our lives. From the bushfires in 2019/20, to COVID lockdowns, home learning, social unrest, the threat and reality of war in Ukraine, to the endless rains and flooding situation we are currently facing.

Record numbers at crisis point says former politician and suicide survivor John Brogden Lifeline is receiving record numbers of calls from people in crisis, with...

Some people at risk of serious harm from infectious diseases are being forgotten in COVID-19 culture wars, even within faith communities where they should expect to receive the most support