Pope Francis has named Australian Missionaries of the Sacred Heart priest Fr Tim Brennan as one of 10 new members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.

The 5th National Day of Sorrow and Promise will be held on Sunday 23 October 2022.

The experience of a communion that both embraces and transcends differences in culture, nation, and outlook is a precious gift in religious life, writes CRA President, Fr Peter Jones OSA.

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.