The spiritual similarities of Australia’s Aborigines and the early Christian desert fathers were explored in a new online retreat launched recently, reports The Catholic Leader.

What are Catholics to think about the proposed referendum on the Voice to Parliament? I suggest ten steps for Catholics inspired by our Catholic social teaching when approaching the forthcoming referendum, writes Fr Frank Brennan SJ in The Catholic Weekly.

Not many priests can say they’ve concelebrated Mass at a cathedral while a Mass setting they have composed is making its debut – but Jesuit Fr Christopher Willcock can. Source: Sandpiper.

Pope Francis has encouraged Christians to rediscover the joy of serving God, working for peace, and helping others in a suffering world in his Easter message and blessing “To the City and the World” , reports Vatican News.

On International Women’s Day, I was fortunate to be invited to the unveiling of the statues of the first two women to enter federal parliament, 80 years ago in 1943. The women were Dame Dorothy Tangney from Western Australia who entered the Senate, and my grandmother Dame Enid Lyons from Tasmania who entered the House of Representatives and became the first woman in cabinet, writes Sr Jo Brady RSJ.