Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans is calling on Australians to examine their shopping baskets more closely this Easter with the “ACRATH Approved” Easter campaign.

More than 130 social service leaders, advocates and supporters from across the nation gathered in Sydney recently for the Catholic Social Services Australia (CSSA) National Conference on the theme, Hope in Action, reports Melbourne Catholic.

Bishop George Kolodziej SDS was episcopally ordained and installed as the fifth Bishop of Bunbury at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Bunbury, on March 19, the Solemnity of Saint Joseph.

The Archdiocese of Sydney has held its annual Mass for Consecrated Life, celebrating those who have decided to dedicate their lives to the Church as a religious, reports The Catholic Weekly.

As the holiest of weeks approaches, we are drawn into a meta story of passion and suffering. There will be the annual playing of films depicting the passion of Jesus. Such interpretations can lead to a skewed and superficial understanding of these final days in the life of the Nazarean. How can such a story shed light on and offer insight into our own experience of suffering?  asks CRA President, Br Gerard Brady CFC.