Catholic Religious Australia (CRA), the peak representative body for the Leaders of Religious Institutes and Societies of Apostolic Life, condemns in the strongest terms the arson attack on the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne. 

Religious and their colleagues have gathered to explore the dynamics of harm and need for safety within communities of Catholic Religious women in a two-day workshop, a joint project of the University of Newcastle and the University of Regensburg (Germany), Catholic Religious Australia (CRA) and the Sisters of the Good Samaritan.

Two Catholic bodies are urging Australians to express their solidarity for the people of Lebanon.

“You are not forgotten”, said the Australian Catholic Bishops Commission for Social Justice, Mission and Service and Catholic Religious Australia in a joint statement.

Catholic Religious Australia (CRA) has called for a nationally coordinated reform of the youth justice system in a recent submission to a Senate Inquiry into Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system.

For the seventh year running, Catholic Religious Australia (CRA) will hold an hour of remembrance, as Religious communities across Australia unite in prayer this Sunday, 20 October, for victims and survivors of sexual abuse.