Fifty years ago, Josephite Sister Noelene Quinane walked the halls of MacKillop House in Canberra's inner north as a young nun. Now, she is back there, accompanying women teetering on the edge of the poverty line, ABC News reports.

Close to 1000 photographs taken in the Kimberley up to 70 years ago have emerged from deep in a Broome archive of the Sisters of St John of God, with work now well underway to identify them thanks to the COVID-19 lockdown, The eRecord reports.

Religious have once again featured on the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in recognition of their long-term service to education and the community.

Now is not a time to continue looking the other way, indifferent to the signs that our planet is being plundered and violated by greed for profit, Pope Francis said in a letter to mark World Environment Day.

A sports injury that blocked his road to the Rome Olympics, a Christian Brother who offered him a “free ticket to Heaven” and a persuasive aunt all played a part in Brother Chris Pritchard’s vocation story that’s spanned 60 years, The Catholic Leader reports.