Australia will always be my home, writes Sr Frances Hayes PBVM in Global Sisters Report. But a chance sighting on the Palms Australia website — looking for volunteers to work overseas to share their skills and develop the capacity of local partners — resulted in the opportunity for me to temporarily call another place home. This next phase of my journey will take me to St Joseph’s School, Mae Ramat, not far from the Thai-Myanmar border where I will volunteer in the teaching of English.

The religious archives of five Australian congregations have found a new permanent home in Melbourne as part of an initiative to collect and store valuable materials for future generations, reports Melbourne Catholic.

The Vatican has marked the Feast of St Francis of Assisi with the global premiere of a new documentary on the urgent need to address climate change, on the same day two UN climate change accords entered into force for the Holy See, reports Catholic News Agency.

The teaching and practice of interreligious relations must be handed on to the next generation, writes Columban priest, Fr Patrick McInerney. They are the ones who will embed it in society, and they are the ones who will carry it into the future. That is why I am always happy to assist those who work with school children, teachers and catechists, who then pass on the teaching in the classroom.

Managing to keep the faith during a traumatic event that changed the course of his family was no easy task but the experience resulted in many ‘gifts’, Jesuit priest Father Richard Leonard SJ told a gathering in Adelaide this month, reports The Southern Cross.