A new report from Caritas Oceania, Caritas Australia and Jubilee Australia Research Centre, has revealed the total annual finance needs for Pacific nations facing climate mitigation, adaptation and loss and damage costs could conservatively sit at around USD$1.5bn. 

The Synod on Synodality came to completion last month after a two-year process engaging all the participants in spiritual conversations.  Its authority was affirmed by Pope Francis who immediately released the final document which had been the subject of intense deliberation in the final weeks of the Synod, writes CRA President Br Gerard Brady CFC.  

One of the two bishops appointed by Pope Francis to be auxiliary bishops for the Archdiocese of Melbourne belongs to a Religious congregation based in the Philippines. 

Every moment in life has the potential to be a ‘God-moment’, as Mary MacKillop reminds us: “There where you are you will find God” (1871). Perhaps the most obvious of these moments are those of birth and death. Have you ever been present at either? Personally, I have yet to witness a birth, even that of an insect or animal, but I have had the privilege of sitting with a friend as she died and holding her hand as she travelled that last journey, writes Sr Mary Cresp RSJ.

A former soldier from an elite military unit in the Philippines, a collaborator of Archbishop Karol Wojtyla from Krakow, and a theologian from Belarus—all share the same calling and mission. They live together in multicultural communities, alongside sisters born in Australia and those who moved from the United States, Poland, the Philippines, and Belarus, reports Vatican News.