Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, the oldest person in the world, died this month in Porto Alegre, Brazil, at the age of 116, reports ACI Digital/Catholic News Agency.

The Columbans are inviting primary and secondary school students in Australia to participate in their Season of Creation school competition, which focuses on the theme, ‘Peace with Creation’.

Pope Francis's final words spoken in public were to give the Easter Urbi et Orbi blessing, to the City and the World, from the loggia of St Peter’s Basilica.

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.