Many of us may look at religious life today and see dwindling numbers, ageing communities and an uncertain future but Ursuline Sister Mel Williams sees much more – she’s positive and excited about what is happening here and now, and it’s a spirit that is infectious, The Catholic Leader reports.

With a rise in family violence due to the coronavirus crisis set to strain an already overstretched social support system, some abusers are reportedly using COVID-19 as a psychological weapon, The Good Oil reports.

Donations from across the country and gratitude from around the world have been flooding in for the tireless work being done by a Sydney religious sister supporting the seafarers visiting our shores, reports The Catholic Weekly.

Like a new flame this Good News springs up in the night: the night of a world already faced with epochal challenges and now oppressed by a pandemic severely testing our whole human family. In this night, the Church’s voice rings out: “Christ, my hope, has arisen!”, said Pope Francis in his Urbi et Orbi Easter blessing.

“I began creating the sculpture with the conviction that healing our broken and wounded Earth depends on us now, one with all vulnerable species, to ‘learn the way forward from the First Peoples of all our countries’,” writes Sr Kenise Neill RSJ.