The Missionaries of God’s Love’s Areté Centre for Missionary Leadership is inviting educators, parish leaders, youth ministers and all those passionate about forming the next generation to a free public event next week. 

The Season of Creation is an opportunity to join the many efforts of Christians and of people of good will around the world who are working for ecological conversion, the Vatican said as it encouraged all Catholics to take part. 

As we mark the Jubilee year and celebrate the feast of Saint Mary MacKillop, we are invited to reflect on her enduring message: “Be calm and full of hope.” In a world yearning for peace, Mary’s life calls us to be Pilgrims of Hope, walking with faith and nurturing seeds of hope, writes Sr Monica Cavanagh for the Feast of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop.

As a young girl growing up in Bondi just after the Second World War, there were two things that loomed large in Sr Ailsa Mackinnon’s life – her tight-knit Catholic family and the beach, reports Catholic Outlook.

St Stephen’s Cathedral, Brisbane, was filled with prayer, praise and gratitude on July 31, as hundreds gathered to mark 150 years of Edmund Rice Ministries in Queensland, reports The Catholic Leader.