Good Samaritan Sister Liz Wiemers has farewelled the Santa Teresa community in Central Australia after 12 years of ministry there, reports The Good Oil.

Our world is in urgent need of Joseph’s creative courage, reflects Sr Monica Cavanagh RSJ in a message for the Feast Day of St Joseph. We have seen it in our frontline workers throughout the pandemic. We see it in people revolting against structures of government that hold people in situations of oppression, and we see it in the faces of those left homeless or unemployed through the experience of COVID-19. We hear it in those giving voice to realities where people are unjustly treated, as revealed in our recent Australian Aged Care Report and in the voices speaking out against the destruction of planet Earth urgently calling all to address the impact of climate change.

Not long after the Carmelite sisters arrived in the drought affected rural diocese of Wilcannia-Forbes, so did the much-needed rain, reports The Catholic Weekly.

A new podcast Australian Women Preach, which was launched on International Women’s Day, will feature 30 Australian Christian women preaching the Gospel.

British theologian Fr Timothy Radcliffe OP has addressed an online symposium with participants from Australia and overseas, encouraging people to use creativity and imagination to open their minds and hearts to God.