The most extensive global survey of Catholic women ever undertaken, detailing experiences of women in the church, was presented by Australian researchers in-person at the Vatican on International Women’s Day.

It’s 50 years since Fr Brian McCoy SJ was at Melbourne’s Sidney Myer Music Bowl when the Aboriginal Mass was celebrated during the Eucharistic Congress in Melbourne, an event he refers to as a “sustaining and life-giving memory”, reports Eureka Street.

“God’s plan is greater than my own,” St Paul de Chartres Sister Theresa Maria Dao has told The Catholic Leader, reflecting on her discernment journey from living as a student in Melbourne to women’s discernment leader at Vocation Brisbane.

A museum has been established in Sydney to remember not only the many lives lost to AIDS, but the vital role played by the Sisters of Charity and St Vincent’s Hospital staff during the early years of Australia’s HIV epidemic, reports The Catholic Weekly.

At the height of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa, there were times when OLSH Sister Sally Duigan’s faith was put to the test as she witnessed the devastating impact on families, reports The Southern Cross.