The hot cross buns and Easter eggs have mostly disappeared from the shelves of supermarkets. People are now looking to the next long weekend. So I ask: what are we, as Easter people, looking toward?  The simple answer is Pentecost. There is, however, much that is needed before we can open our hearts to the Spirit, writes Sr Karon Donnellon RSM.

Catholic Religious Australia’s recent workshop on Intercultural Awareness in Leadership, Ministry and Formation, not only explored barriers to, and strategies for, authentically living interculturally, but invited a focus on hospitality of the heart, said one of the presenters, Sr Geraldine Kearney SGS, in The Good Oil.

A new book by historian Katharine Massam, 'The Promise and the Blessing', explores the history and journey of the Presentation Sisters in Victoria since Vatican II.

During Pope Leo XIV's Prayer Vigil for Peace in the world, the Pope appealed to leaders of nations to stop and sit at the table of dialogue and mediation, "not at the table where rearmament is planned and deadly actions are decided!", Vatican News reports.

Ahead of International Earth Day, which will be observed on Wednesday, April 22, Fr Brian Vale SSC reflects that God is inherently present to the whole of creation and every part of it.