When two young women from western Sydney took up the call to Religious life, half a century ago, they took a real leap of courage in joining a new religious order many Catholics in Australia had never heard of, reports The Catholic Weekly.

More than three years after Sr Patricia Fox was forced to leave the Philippines and return to her hometown of Melbourne, Australia, the Our Lady of Sion sister admits she is still adjusting to her new life, reports Global Sisters Report.

Asylum-seekers and refugees in western Sydney will be enjoying their Easter season more thanks to a Lenten initiative at Good Shepherd Parish in Plumpton, in which parishioners contributed to the House of Welcome’s Food Bank, Sr Sophie Boffa reports in Catholic Outlook.

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.