This year sees the inauguration of the Mercy Emerging Leaders Fellowship in Integral Ecology – a program designed to empower and equip leaders in the task of raising awareness and animating efforts for Gospel justice to care for and protect our common home.
Religious must accept invitation to ask 'what moves us?'
In our contemporary society, Religious Life isn’t much understood, even among Catholics. Partly, this is due to our age and demographics. There are fewer of us and we’re not as visible as we once were, writes CRA President, Br Peter Carroll FMS. One of the reasons St John Paul II initiated the World Day for Consecrated Life in 1997 was in response to this developing situation, and he stated as much when he wrote: “this day is intended to promote a knowledge of and esteem for the consecrated life by the entire People of God.”
Columbans launch Lenten Odyssey resource
Meeting people where they're at - on the soccer field
Over the past few months, one of the Missionary Sisters of Service (MSS) based in Melbourne’s outer south-east, Sr Bernadette Wallis, has befriended several young women who play professional soccer for Melbourne City Football Club, reports Melbourne Catholic.