There is a part of the Catholic Church – Ministerial Public Juridic Persons (PJP) - where women consistently have a place as equals in Church governance, a record confirmed for the fifth year in the most recent annual report.

A popular retirement village in one of Brisbane’s most historic Catholic precincts will be transferred by its founding Sisters to leading not-for-profit aged care provider Ozcare next month, The Catholic Leader reports.

Majellan Media is bringing back a service first introduced by Redemptorist priests in the early 1990s to help families deal with a range of issues.

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.

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.”