A number of Australia’s religious congregations and associated entities have joined more than 20 faith-based communities from around the world, in a joint statement declaring their common commitment to stand with the suffering people of Myanmar and call for an end to violence.

Pioneering scientist, bioethicist and educator, the late Sr Regis Mary Dunne RSM has joined the list of Queensland Greats, announced by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk last week, The Catholic Leader reports.

With the Feasts of Pentecost and Mary Mother of the Church behind us and the Plenary Council ahead, it’s opportune to consider the future of the Church. I’m not a prophet or a futurologist, and of course, in the end, the future of the Church is about hoping against hope in the Spirit. However, it seems that we can’t simply carry on as we have been, when foresight and planning are possible and even required of us, writes CRA President, Br Peter Carroll FMS.

A National Mass will be celebrated simultaneously across Australia on May 24, the Feast of Mary Help of Christians, to mark the bicentenary of the first 'official' Catholic school opened in Parramatta in October 1820.

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.