Catholic Social Services Australia (CSSA) has proposed an independent body to review welfare entitlements to ensure that Australian pensioners and others on benefits are no longer “fed the scraps from the political table”.

A ”Womb to tomb” pastoral vision has led to the creation of Capalaba’s new 75-place St Luke’s Parish Catholic Child Care Centre, according to parish priest Fr Peter McCarthy.

Centacare-North East Community Care (NECC) has excelled in the Quest newspapers Business Achievers Awards, winning in two major categories.

Fertility education should be right up there with pap smears and breast scans as one of the “must dos” for good sexual and reproductive healthcare, Cheryl Curnow of the Natural Family Planning Program said today.

Centacare’s Catholic Family and Community Services hosted the official blessing and opening of a new Family Relationship Centre (FRC) at Chermside on Thursday 3rd July.

It’s a little known but telling statistic that if a person just released from jail can find work within their first six weeks of freedom there is a far greater chance they will not reoffend.

For a society that thinks it knows prison life, by virtue of cop shows, lawyers and CSI style investigations on TV, meeting someone with actual experience of the system is a sobering time.