The Divine Word Missionaries Australia Province has celebrated the culmination of the Jubilee Year marking the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Society of the Divine Word with a Thanksgiving Mass earlier this month, reports In the Word.

The Marist Brothers’ Star of the Sea Province has appointed Br Darren Burge FMS as its new Provincial, succeeding Br Peter Carroll FMS, who was elected Superior General of the Marist Brothers on September 30.

As the Jubilee Year of Hope draws to a close, what has been its impact in the Church from a global perspective? To look back over this year can be disheartening and can even lead to disillusionment as we watch the carnage of global warfare and the despicable arms trade that maliciously feeds these conflicts. How can our global community not rise up in horror at such atrocities and cry out for justice? Yet it seems those voices are muted these days, and in some places deliberately silenced.

This year marks a significant milestone for the Region of the Southern Cross as they celebrate the 140th Anniversary of the arrival of the Little Company of Mary Sisters in Australia on 4th November 1885.  On12th November a Mass of Thanksgiving was held, with LCM Sisters, Guests, Volunteers and Staff at St Margaret’s Chapel, Calvary Retirement Community Ryde

On the 60th anniversary of the promulgation of the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on the Church’s Relationship with Non-Christian Religions, Nostra Aetate (28 October 2025), Catholic Religious Australia (CRA) pledges to recommit to the document’s call to dialogue and collaboration with the followers of other religions