A new report from Jesuit Social Services highlights the stricter and more onerous conditions for visitors to asylum seeker detention centres. The changes designed to deter visits have a flow on effect to those detained as they feel forgotten and abandoned.

As we celebrated Mary MacKillop’s feast day this month, let us celebrate how she was a woman who raised the powers of love in her time and continues to inspire us to do the same in our day.  Love was at the heart of all that Mary did, writes Sr Monica Cavanagh RSJ.

The practical elements of a simple, devotional faith and the benefits of a daily routine that supports it, was the context for the presentation by visiting Jesuit Father Chris Collins at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, the eRecord reports.

The world and its wounds changed shape over the past 70 years and the Canossian Daughters of Charity evolved with them, cherishing the experience of walking with the poor in Australia, The Catholic Leader reports.

Catholic religious congregations have been invited to take part in the second Catholic Religious Australia National Day of Sorrow and Promise in October, to coincide with the first anniversary of the Prime Minister’s National Apology to Victims and Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse.