The mission of men and women in consecrated life is to be with those on the edges and to be, as reminded by Pope Francis, people of hope and joy, a gathering of Religious in the Parramatta Diocese was told recently.

Brother Garry Coyte FSC first left his mark as a school leader at De La Salle Orange in the early 1960s. Now, after being a principal at five De La Salle colleges and an educational consultant, he has returned to school.

The second phase of a visionary digital literacy program co-founded by an Australian Jesuit is set to launch in Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi, where refugees have continued to seek asylum in great numbers during the Covid-19 pandemic.

A great and long awaited event for the Salvatorians in Australia and worldwide took place last week with the beatification of the Order’s founder, Fr Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan at the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome, the e-Record reports.

The first Convent of Mercy on Australia’s East coast, in Nicholson Street Fitzroy, was recently entrusted by the Leadership Team of the Institute of Sisters of Mercy Australian and Papua New Guinea into the care of Sr Mary Moloney RSM, Principal, and Staff of Academy of Mary Immaculate, ‘for the furtherance of the Ministry of Education’.