Two Sisters of St Joseph featured on the King’s Birthday Honours List this month, with Sr Carmel Moore RSJ and Sr Mary Ryan RSJ each receiving a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for their service to the Catholic Church.

Catholic Religious Australia (CRA), the representative organisation of Leaders of 150 Religious Institutes in Australia, has launched “10,000 for 10”, a project to encourage members and their local communities to plant and/or protect 10,000 trees, to celebrate the 10th anniversary year of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’.

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.