Religious were a strong and vibrant presence at the Australian Catholic Youth Festival in Perth this month, with some giving keynote presentations to the 5,500 young people from across the country and many more sharing their charism and mission at the Encounter Expo.

On Sunday December 1, 2019 - 58 years after it was first raised, West Papua’s Morning Star Flag was raised again at the Mary MacKillop Centre, South Perth, writes Sr Margaret Keane RSJ.

Every so often you are invited to go to a place that leaves you with the extraordinary feeling of “I am standing on sacred ground”. I was privileged to have such an experience recently at Merrepen Arts in Nauiyu on the Daly River, Northern Territory, where I worked with the local community teaching silk painting, writes Loreto Sister Susan Daily in Loreto Networker.

Salesian Sister Louise McKeogh is moving on from her role as Social Justice Coordinator for the Diocese of Parramatta, to become a regional Provincial for her religious order, Catholic Outlook reports.

Gladstone parish in Queensland has farewelled the Marist Fathers who served the people for 118 years, The Catholic Leader reports.