The smell of lanoline evokes a flood of childhood memories for Sr Mary-Ann Casanova. Her early years were spent on a sheep station near Port Lincoln, more than seven hours from Adelaide, reports The Southern Cross.

After more than 30 years of unwavering service, Sr Mary O’Shannassy SGS has officially retired from her role as senior chaplain of the CatholicCare prison ministry team in Victoria, reports Melbourne Catholic.

Disability advocates and theologians from the Catholic Church including a Jesuit canon lawyer born legally blind will lead an historic conference to rethink practical Christian understandings of disability and limitation and what they might tell us about being human.

More than 70 Year 10 students recently took part in the first Archdiocese of Perth Vocation Reflection Day which was designed to help students from Irene McCormack Catholic College reflect on their understanding of a vocation and to ask “who am I meant to be?”, reports The Record..

A new chapter has begun for the former Spirituality Ministry of the Sisters of Saint Joseph, with a new name and a new brand identity designed to honour the legacy of St Mary MacKillop and meet the spirituality needs of today’s world.