Catholic Schools NSW honoured the important contribution of Religious women to school education and public life in Australia at its International Women’s Day Breakfast in Sydney this month.

Caritas Australia has launched Project Compassion 2025, its Lenten fundraising and awareness appeal which sees 1,700 schools and 1,200 parishes across Australia take part each year, calling on the community to ‘Unite Against Poverty’.

It’s that time of the year when individuals, schools and large global businesses flick their light switches off for Earth Hour in an act of solidarity with all those who are committed to caring for our common home.

This Lent, as we share in the grace of the Jubilee Year, I would like to propose a few reflections on what it means to journey together in hope, and on the summons to conversion that God in his mercy addresses to all of us, as individuals and as a community, writes Pope Francis in his Lenten Message.

His ministry has taken him to several, often dangerous, countries around the world, but 50 years after joining the Jesuits Fr Peter Hosking SJ now finds himself back serving where it all began, reports The Southern Cross.