Creating art for social justice
The Social Justice Statement for 2021-21, To Live to the Full: Mental Health in Australia Today, provides the opportunity to better understand mental illness and how as social beings we need the bonds of family, friends and the broader community to celebrate the joys and hopes of life.

Timor-Leste and Indonesian Floods Emergency Appeal
April 09, 2021

Bishop Bill's Reflection Days
March 29, 2021

Bishop's Easter Message 2021
March 29, 2021

CatholicCare support for floods
March 24, 2021

Way of the Cross
March 23, 2021
LATEST IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
Old and new adapt to the day
Returning gifted education students regrouped Wednesday 17 March to kickstart an adaptations concept and meet their new Virtual Academy teacher, Bianca Sibert.

Backflips at Booragul on bullying behaviour
March 29, 2021

Schools return to normal operations
March 24, 2021

Physical upgrade enhances student opportunities
March 24, 2021

School closures on Wednesday 24 March due to severe weather
March 23, 2021

School closures on Tuesday 23 March due to severe weather
March 22, 2021

School closures on Monday 22 March due to severe weather
March 21, 2021
LITURGY MATTERS: Mysta what?
While society thinks Easter is over, we Christians know that it has only just begun. We have a church given mandate to celebrate (party) for 50 days, right up to Pentecost Sunday. So, what are you and your faith community doing to maintain the celebration?!

LITURGY MATTERS: Easter is no mere historical remembering
March 29, 2021

LITURGY MATTERS: Chrism Mass in on!
March 16, 2021

LITURGY MATTERS: Rituals Remind Us
March 02, 2021

LITURGY MATTERS: Grief Matters
February 16, 2021

LITURGY MATTERS: Initiation Matters
February 02, 2021
DOOHAN DISCOURSE: 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A
Bishop Bill's homily for the 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A) as preached during the live-streamed 9.30 am Mass from Sacred Heart Cathedral, Hamilton.

DOOHAN DISCOURSE: The Solemnity of Pentecost, Year A
June 02, 2020

DOOHAN DISCOURSE: 6th Sunday of Easter, Year A
May 18, 2020

DOOHAN DISCOURSE: 5th Sunday of Easter, Year A
May 11, 2020
FAITH MATTERS: Toddlers in Church
A word to the mother following her toddler in church: Solidarity! Studies say that if you have little children, by the time you have arrived to join your colleagues in the workplace, you have already clocked almost a whole day’s work. This I can believe.

FAITH MATTERS: Full of Grace Collective
April 06, 2021

FAITH MATTERS: Awe and Wonder
March 23, 2021

FAITH MATTERS: A strong woman
March 09, 2021

FAITH MATTERS: 'Be More' - See, Judge, Act
February 22, 2021

FAITH MATTERS: God of the Rice-cooker and Mystical Delights
December 21, 2020

FAITH MATTERS: Enjoying God
December 15, 2020
LATEST IN OPINION & COMMENT
TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Resurrection
I don’t know about you, but I have been captured by the deaths and three funerals that have occurred in the past week: that of Carla Zampatti, Prince Philip and Cardinal Idris Cassidy.

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Faith and Community
April 13, 2021

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Our Easter Rituals
April 06, 2021

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: The sound of joy
March 30, 2021

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Mission and Outreach
March 23, 2021

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Harmony Week
March 16, 2021

TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Choose to Challenge
March 09, 2021
Neatly packaged care
Aberdeen’s Carole Johnston recently assembled 489 care packages that will hopefully reach Australian troops in the Far East, including the Sinai, Egypt and Syria, to coincide with Anzac Day.

Taking the initiative
April 14, 2021

Fostering unconditional love
April 14, 2021

Fried rice among the gum trees
April 14, 2021

Upside to Down
April 07, 2021

Putting Others First
April 06, 2021

Listen for the diversity
March 19, 2021
LATEST IN CHURCH
Project Compassion Week 2: Margaret from Solomon Islands
Margret, 39, is a teacher at a vocational school for deaf students in the Solomon Islands. She was born deaf, so she knows the challenges it poses to education and employment.

Project Compassion Week 1: Jamila from Bangladesh
February 22, 2021

Project Compassion calls on Australians to ‘Be More’
February 17, 2021

Project Compassion 2021: Be More
February 02, 2021

Catholic Church supports SRE in schools
October 16, 2020

October is Mission Month
October 12, 2020
LATEST IN SOCIAL SERVICES
Diversity Celebrated at Refugee Hub Launch
'Everyone Belongs' was the theme of this year's Harmony Week, and nowhere was this sentiment more evident than at the official launch of CatholicCare’s new Refugee Hub.

New Church Street Hub to become a melting pot of cultures
March 17, 2021

A recipe for success
December 03, 2020

CatholicCare celebrate NAIDOC Week
November 13, 2020

A community kitchen for all
September 22, 2020

Walk to stop the wild side
July 20, 2020

CatholicCare’s Winter Appeal 2020
June 26, 2020
A life-changing experience
It was late at night on the day the Pastoral Placement Program application was to close that I decided to apply for the position.

Leap of Faith
May 14, 2020

It’s only the beginning …
May 06, 2020

Chapters of God’s Love
April 29, 2020

Happily placed
April 20, 2020

All you need is love
January 30, 2020

Maitland-Newcastle heads to ACYF: Day 9 (Retreat Day 2)
December 14, 2019
LATEST IN EARLY EDUCATION
Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle continues to expand its education network
The Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle is expanding its education network, with the official launch today of St Nicholas Pathways.
Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle, CEO, Sean Scanlon, said the initiative was established to create meaningful pathways to employment and in particular, support the growing demand for early childhood educators.

St Nick's has a brand new website
January 29, 2019

St Nicholas Early Education celebrates graduation day 2018
December 19, 2018

Child-led play-based early education available at Raymond Terrace
November 13, 2018

St Nick's Raymond Terrace aims to save preschool places
October 02, 2018

St Nicholas showcases its newest Early Education Centre
September 25, 2018
Partnership puts belief in leadership
In an effort to develop leadership through the prism of theology, the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle is partnering with Australian Catholic University to offer a Graduate Certificate in Mission and Culture (GCMC) in 2020.

New Flexible Learning Centre the first of many in the Hunter
December 12, 2019

Aboriginal Catholic Education Conference aims to close the gap
December 12, 2019

Synod question makes strong statement
December 12, 2019

From strength to strength
December 07, 2019

DARA – Year in Review
December 07, 2019

Message from Teresa Brierley
December 07, 2019