Several years ago, US management expert, Gary Hamel, writing in the Harvard Business Review, paraphrased an address that Pope Francis had given to the Roman Curia. In opening his piece, he stated that the Pope’s message to his colleagues was blunt: leaders are susceptible to an array of debilitating maladies, and when these go untreated the organisation is enfeebled. To have a healthy Church, Pope Francis stressed, we need healthy leaders. We can say the same of any organisation, writes CRA President, Br Peter Carroll FMS.

The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference’s Office of Social Justice and Caritas Australia’s Catholic Earthcare program are co-hosting a prayer and reflection event this Friday to celebrate the conclusion of the Laudato Si’ Year.

Recently solemnly professed Benedictine Dom Daniel Meers described a sense of freedom and peace on making his final religious vows at New Norcia, reports the e-Record.

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.