In the most significant change in the society’s 205-year-history, the Champagnat Marist mission is charting a new course in the Oceania Region, reports The Catholic Weekly.

Mercy Health has announced it will join with Our Lady Aged Care Centre to open and operate a new aged care home adjacent to Our Lady of Lebanon Co-Cathedral, Harris Park in western Sydney, to be known as Our Lady Mercy Place Harris Park.

The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart have been farewelled from two parishes – Henley Beach in Adelaide and King’s Meadow in Launceston, but the legacy of their contribution will live on.

Community organisations around the nation are being invited to apply for the Missionary Sisters of Service ‘Highways and Byways’ small grants available to community organisations to address disadvantage and inequality, especially in rural, regional and remote areas of Australia.

Executive leaders of Catholic organisations and ministries could strengthen the organisational culture of their workforce by taking advantage of leadership and mission formation opportunities, according to Associate Professor Fr Jamie Calder SJ.