Over 120 people gathered on Zoom on the 4 August in a Commissioning Ceremony of the 45 members of Religious Congregations and Institutes of Apostolic Life who are preparing to attend the forthcoming Assembly of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia.

On top of a small mountain in the middle of lush rainforest, there's a simple brick building. Its floor is uneven slate, its walls are bare. A large window stretches across one side of it, looking out over the bush, reports the ABC’s Life Matters.

The World Council of Churches, the Global Catholic Climate Movement, Operation Noah, Green Anglicans and GreenFaith are inviting faith organisations from around the world to join a global fossil fuel divestment announcement on 25 October 2021.

There’s to be another Royal Commission. Earlier this month, the Prime Minister announced the establishment of the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide. Its task will be to conduct a "systemic analysis" of the risk factors inside military life that contribute to the high number of service men and women taking their own lives, writes CRA President, Br Peter Carroll, FMS.

'There’ll be no healing of the country, there’ll be no constitutional recognition, and there’ll be no truth telling unless more of us hear the call: ‘The spirit came into me and made me stand up, and I heard the Lord speaking to me’, reflects Fr Frank Brennan SJ in his homily for NATSICC Sunday.