It might feel like Christmas and New Year are still fresh in our memory, but Lent is just around the corner, and the Columbans have prepared some prayers and liturgy resources, including a Prayer for Ash Wednesday, which falls on February 26.

There was no shower of rose petals but hot red dust falling from the sky as St Thérèse of Lisieux arrived in Sydney, The Catholic Weekly reports.

Catholic Religious Australia has signed on as a founding member of a new whole-of-Church initiative to help people and communities recover from the current bushfire crisis which will set the blueprint for how the Catholic Church responds to domestic natural disasters in the future.

The Archdiocese of Sydney’s Anti-Slavery Taskforce will work with other Catholic entities on a new anti-slavery initiative to assist those in need to access confidential legal advice and assistance to housing.

“I have learned that I have a deep fondness for the road,” Dominican Brother Reginald Chua said towards the end of a road trip from his Melbourne priory around the western half of Australia, reports The Catholic Leader.