Five years after its establishment, the enclosed Carmelite convent in Mathoura, New South Wales, is celebrating its first fully home-grown member, reports The Catholic Weekly.

I am presently at a phase of life where one by one several of those who were guides, examples and mentors for me from my religious congregation are, one by one, slipping away. Naturally each passing provides a poignant time of reflection. Memory, gratitude, loss - all are real, all are there, writes CRA President Fr Peter Jones OSA.

Bathurst might be well known for its motor racing circuit, but there's one thing that is just as important - it's heritage, including its religious heritage, reports The Western Advocate. 

Sister Annette Arnold RSJ has been appointed as the new Oceania regional coordinator for Talitha Kum, the International Network of Consecrated Life Against Human Trafficking.

They might not all be as familiar with the liturgy as regular churchgoers, but the inmates of John Moroney Correctional Centre who attended Mass on Holy Thursday were no less thankful to be receiving communion, reports Catholic Outlook.