While most of the country's attention was on the newly reinstated Australian Grand Prix, another race was taking place on the streets of Melbourne on Palm Sunday - the race to stop the next federal government from treating refugees and asylum seekers as the political football they have been over the last few decades, reports Melbourne Catholic.

Catholics across the country are being invited to participate in a new prayer pilgrimage as the Church journeys towards the second assembly of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia.

A javelin star who swapped her Olympic gold medal dreams for life as a Religious Sister has received an Honorary Doctorate from Australian Catholic University.

We are all acutely aware of the many challenges that confront the Catholic Church, not just in Australia, but across the globe; even in countries where 40 years ago it seemed to be immune to such problems, reflects CRA President, Br Peter Carroll FMS. Maybe contemporary society has something to teach the Church. The only way we will determine this is to enter into an encounter with it; not with fear and defensiveness, but with openness and a reliance on the Gospel as our guide.

The latest United Nations climate report released on Monday makes clear that the climate emergency and the biodiversity crisis must be tackled together in order for the world to achieve serious progress for our common home, the Laudato Si’ Movement says.