Fr Arturo Sosa SJ, the Venezuelan-born Superior-General of the Society of Jesus, visited Australia and Timor-Leste during January and February, with his Australian trip taking in Jesuit communities in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

Six new icons will soon watch over the Blessed Sacrament inside Brisbane’s Holy Spirit Provincial Seminary’s oratory as part of a new installation this year, reports The Catholic Leader.

Pope Francis has appointed Archbishop of Perth Timothy Costelloe SDB as a consultor of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops.

Two Religious – Br Nicholas Harsas FSP and Sr Lorraine Groves MSS - have been bestowed with ecclesial honours in recognition of their life of service and faith.

Over the course of January, I attended the solemn (final) professions of members of our Province who are in Korea and Vietnam. Such occasions are celebrated prayerfully, with great joy and hope and so they should be. We who have lived the journey of religious life might find ourselves musing on such occasions as to what we want to humbly offer from our limited wisdom to these younger travellers on the journey of religious life. I find the title of this e-publication, Pathways, provides a helpful image.