I have worked as a Prison Chaplain for nearly four and a half years; three years at Long Bay Correctional Centre, and currently at Lithgow in NSW, a maximum-security prison for adult men, writes Sr Virginia McGrath RSJ in the Mary MacKillop E-News.

Pope Francis this month released a new document on the environment that he has described as the “second part” of his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si', and which warns of “grave consequences” if humanity continues to ignore the threat of climate change, reports Catholic News Agency. 

Catholics around the world are being invited to pray for the Synod on Synodality Assembly currently underway, by using the same prayer to the Holy Spirit which has been used for similar Church gatherings for centuries.

It has been 50 years since the Sister Disciples of the Divine Master took up the invitation to come to Australia and care for the sick and retired priests of the Archdiocese of Melbourne, reports Melbourne Catholic. 

Fr Edmond Travers MSC said he felt “amazed” and “grateful” to have returned to Tasmania after 38 years to live a life of silence and solitude as a hermit at Mangana, the Archdiocese of Hobart reports