Friends are everything to Missionaries of God’s Love (MGL) sister Isobel Stewart. They were by her side as the former primary school teacher discerned the call to religious life, and they remain there now as she navigates the busy life of a sister, reports Melbourne Catholic.

For Sister Margaret Hart RSM, arriving in the south-central New South Wales town of Young “well and truly at retirement age without a job”, has meant rediscovering ways of living out her vocation, after many years of more formal ministry in teaching, foster care, pastoral care and parish work.

It was with the rich timbres of a didgeridoo that Sydney’s annual Mass to commence NAIDOC Week began, as dozens of Sydneysiders gathered at La Perouse’s Reconciliation Church for a celebration and commemoration of Australia’s Indigenous community, reports The Catholic Weekly.

The Josephite Mission and History Centre at New Town in Hobart has entered a new era as a Mary MacKillop Spirituality Centre.

The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Commission has named Sister Cecilia Prest MFIC as one of the winners of the 2025 NATSICC non-Indigenous Service to Community Award for her ministry in the Queensland community of Woorabinda.