Octogenarian nun, Brigid Arthur CSB, lost faith in Australian politicians a long time ago - making her a natural ally for defiant teenagers seeking to force action on climate change, writes Michael Taylor for the Thomas Reuter Foundation in Sight Magazine.

ACRATH’s Slavery-free Easter Chocolate Campaign kicked off on Ash Wednesday, asking people to name their ‘chocolate change’ in Lent and stick to it beyond Easter.

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.