There’s a sense of calm at the Sevenhill Centre of Jesuit and Ignatian Spirituality. Cows graze the nearby farmland as winter mist drifts through the ground’s historic vineyard and Sevenhill Cellars, the oldest winery in South Australia’s Clare Valley, and the birthplace of the Jesuits in Australia, reports The Southern Cross.

A new book by Good Samaritan Sister Carmel Posa, which uses the ancient method of hagiography to recover the missing life and voice of St Scholastica of Nursia, proposes that the sister of St Benedict was a Good Samaritan whose capacity for love shaped her growth in holiness and wisdom, reports The Good Oil.

The ‘Our Lady of Peace and St Therese’ community in Wurrumiyanga (Bathurst Island) celebrated the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (OLSH) congregation recently, writes Fr Niran Veigas SVD.

The Benedictine Sisters of Jamberoo Abbey on the south coast of New South Wales are appealing for help to fund urgent repairs and restoration works on their property, reports The Catholic Leader.

The month of August gives us a special opportunity to focus on the life of Saint Mary MacKillop as we celebrate her feast day on 8 August, writes Congregational Leader of the Sisters of St Joseph, Sr Monica Cavanagh RSJ.