The Pontifical Athenaeum Sant’Anselmo in Rome with the patronage of the Australian Embassy to the Holy See has conferred an honorary Doctorate in Theology to Fr Michael Casey ocso, a monk of Tarawarra Abbey in Victoria.

The most overused word in the journalists’ lexicon these days is ‘unprecedented’. We hear of ‘unprecedented floods’, ‘unprecedented bushfires’, an ‘unprecedented drought’ – all the ‘unprecedented’ impact of climate change on women, men, and children across the globe, writes Sr Mary Ellen O’Donoghue RSJ.

This month, the Catholic Church in Australia marked Safeguarding Sunday, on which we prayed for those who have been abused, their families and supporters, recognising and apologising for the harm done by priests, religious and lay people in Church settings.

The Somascan Community based at St Joseph’s Moorebank was filled with joy, recently, as it welcomed the second vocation from Sydney in just under a year, reports The Catholic Weekly.

Sr Deirdre Browne has been a Loreto sister for 68 years and describes her life as having been ‘exciting and fulfilling’. She is well known for having written and composed the song ‘Come as you are’, but this is just one of hundreds of songs and compositions she’s created over the years, writes Fiona Basile for Melbourne Catholic.