The weeks since Cardinal Pell’s conviction have been difficult in our preparations for the Plenary Council. In that time, I have attended two planning sessions both of which included opportunities to pray and share our prayer.

When Sr Annette Cunliffe joined the Sisters of Charity in 1959, she could have had no idea of the series of ministries – or their breadth – which would make up her life as a religious Sister. After all, those were the days when people in the general community had one job, and had it for life, by and large.

After a remarkable 65 years as a missionary nun in one of the world’s poorest island nations, Sr Margaret Sullivan said she’d do it all again if she had her time over, The Catholic Weekly reports.

The Catholic bishops of Australia, together with the Catholic indigenous community, have paid tribute to the deep spirituality and decades of service of Deacon Boniface Perdjert following his recent death.

A humble, quaint old cottage surrounded by trees and wildlife in the Diocese of Wilcannia-Forbes is now home to a new monastery of cloistered Carmelite nuns from the United States, reports the ACBC Media Blog.