The Catholic health sector has welcomed the news that the Federal Government will ensure its hospitals will be able to continue the fight against coronavirus.

The 2020 Triduum is over. Holy Week and Easter have come and gone. This year’s festivities were remarkable and memorable in that they were probably the most privately, as opposed to publicly, celebrated in history, outside periods of Christian persecution, writes CRA President, Br Peter Carroll FMS.

I am writing these few words from Rome where I’ve met with officials at the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (CICLSAL) about CRA’s Emerging Futures Initiative, and where I’m now attending our own Conference of Provincials.

The population of the West Australian gold-mine towns of Mt Magnet, Meekatharra and Cue might be small, but there was a strong turnout from across the community recently to celebrate the presence of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan among them for the past 33 years, The Good Oil reports.

We’re halfway through Lent, and while some people will have decided to take a break from phones, apps and screens during this season, others might be looking for some digital prayer inspiration.