Catholic Religious Australia, in Open Letters to the Prime Minister and Minister for Climate Change and Energy of Australia, has called on the government to adopt a strong national climate pollution reduction plan with an evidence-based target of net zero emissions by 2035.

Catholic Religious Australia (CRA), the representative organisation of Leaders of 150 Religious Institutes in Australia, has launched “10,000 for 10”, a project to encourage members and their local communities to plant and/or protect 10,000 trees, to celebrate the 10th anniversary year of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’.

Caritas Australia and Catholic Religious Australia (CRA) affirms its call for unimpeded humanitarian aid access, an end to the suffering of civilians in Gaza, and, in accord with the recent call for peace and the provision of humanitarian aid in Gaza made in the first Sunday blessing of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV.

Catholic Religious Australia (CRA), the representative body of almost 4500 sisters, brothers and priests who belong to 150 religious orders spread throughout Australia, welcomes the election of Pope Leo XIV and expresses its joy in this moment of newness and opportunity as a new chapter begins in the life of the Church.

Australians have generously provided more than $250,000 to an appeal to support the people of Lebanon, following the Israeli–Hezbollah conflict.