They earned a legion of fans on national TV as the 'Amazing Race nuns’ but while Missionaries of God’s Love Sisters Judy Bowe and Therese Mills were crowd favourites, they became the second contestants to be eliminated from the Network 10 reality show, 10Play reports.

In fulfilling the mission of his congregation to ‘work with migrants’, recently appointed Filipino chaplain in the Adelaide Archdiocese, Fr Franco Lacanaria CS ironically finds himself in the same situation of having to navigate his way around a new country, The Southern Cross reports.

In a world where vocations ministry is no longer about attracting big numbers to individual congregations, the Passionists, Franciscans, Dominicans and Capuchins recently got together to host a ‘Religious Life Discernment Weekend’ with the intention not of promoting their individual charisms, but rather their collective vocation, which each has vowed to live in different ways, writes Luke Bulley CP.

Pope Francis calls us to care for our common home, telling us, as people of faith, that living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience, writes Karen Oxley of the Josephite Justice Network.

A range of new Catholic podcasts have hit the streets in recent months, offering opportunities for spiritual reflection and nourishment, engagement with the big issues of the day, and support for families.