Religious are uniquely placed to lead the way on Pope Francis’ path of synodality, because they are already living a synodal life within their religious communities, Parramatta Bishop Vincent Long OFM Conv told the SVD Provincial Chapter.

Each of us can find ourselves so engaged with the ‘what we do’ that we lose sight of the ‘why we do’. The life of religion is certainly not immune from activity taking over from meaning and focus being lost, writes CRA President, Fr Peter Jones OSA.

For each of us who are engaged with public ministry we are often readily identified by what we do or the roles we have. This is understandable even if at times frustrating because we know that each of us is more than just what we do. We also know from within ourselves that the external face of ministry only has meaning because of what happens at the depth of who we are. Vocation to ministry flows from encounter with Christ. It is that encounter that transforms, writes CRA President Fr Peter Jones OSA.

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.