The nation-wide pilgrimage of the relics of St Thérèse of Lisieux and her parents, Sts Louis and Zélie Martin, has been temporarily suspended and the relics have instead been hosted in Carmelite monasteries in Canberra and Melbourne.

The Catholic Church is inviting its various agencies and religious communities across the country to consider what facilities could be made available to support national efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19 within the community.

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.