Australia has gained its first Divine Word Missionary bishop with the episcopal ordination of Bishop Tim Norton SVD as Auxiliary Bishop of Brisbane.

Br Peter Clinch is the new congregation leader for the Christian Brothers’ global congregation leadership team, becoming only the second Australian to be elected to the position.

There is a part of the Catholic Church – Ministerial Public Juridic Persons (PJP) - where women consistently have a place as equals in Church governance, a record confirmed for the fifth year in the most recent annual report.

A popular retirement village in one of Brisbane’s most historic Catholic precincts will be transferred by its founding Sisters to leading not-for-profit aged care provider Ozcare next month, The Catholic Leader reports.

Majellan Media is bringing back a service first introduced by Redemptorist priests in the early 1990s to help families deal with a range of issues.