On 7 July, Catholic Religious Australia launched a series of online ‘conversations’ to explore The Light from the Southern Cross Report and to provide an opportunity for reflection and engagement with this landmark document, at a significant time in Church history and in light of the Plenary Council.

The Federal Court has found Environment Minister Sussan Ley has a duty of care to protect young people from the climate crisis, in a world-first case brought by teenagers and a Catholic religious sister, The Guardian reports.

A Christian Brother who has helped preserve and promote the languages of Australia’s First Peoples on the NSW mid-north coast is one of three Religious to receive Queen’s Birthday Honours.

There is a time in the afternoon when the sunshine reaches our kitchen bench, which I always thought was clean. It shows all the dust, crumbs and smudges from the last person cleaning it. If I am at home and see it, I pick up spray and a cleaning cloth and try to clean it better, but quite often the surface stays the way it is – unnoticed – until someone feels that there is something sticky or dirty and cleans it, reflects Sr Grace Roclawska CSFN in Catholic Outlook.

The Marist Brothers Province of Australia celebrated the feast day of founder St Marcellin Champagnat with the launch of three short films on contemporary expressions of Marist spirituality in Australia.