Australia’s ambassador to the Holy See, Chiara Porro, chaired the opening panel of the two-day International Union of Superiors General Advocacy Forum in Rome last month, speaking on the theme: “Religious women: leadership and development”, reports Vatican News. 

The Loreto Sisters have appointed Sr Mary Wright IBVM as the new leader of the Loreto Province of Australia and South East Asia for a three-year term commencing this week.

I am conscious as I write of the heaviness of heart many are experiencing in these days, writes CRA President, Fr Peter Jones OSA.

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.