Just under 3 million Australians, including nearly 750,000 children, are living in poverty according to a major new report from the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre.

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.