St Joseph’s Spirituality and Education Centre in Kincumber on the NSW Central Coast, nestled in a natural bushland setting and a sacred place visited by Mary MacKillop, is embracing a renewed focus on providing accessible and enriching spiritual experiences through a range of shorter reflection days, workshops, events and retreats.

Eileen O’Connor’s path to sainthood is now in God’s hands (and the care of the Vatican) after Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP formally concluded the diocesan phase of the canonisation cause on Friday 16 August and officially presented the documents in Rome this week, reports The Catholic Weekly. 

Applications for the Mercy Integral Ecology Fellowship Program 2025-26 are now open for emerging leaders in Integral Ecology awareness and animation who have a desire to be part of the ongoing enhancement and development of reflective action for Gospel justice in response to the cries of Earth and of those rendered poor.

Catholic Religious Australia has prepared a prayer resource with the theme ‘Widen the Circle of Our Hearts’ for use in local Religious community settings to mark the 2024 National Day of Sorrow and Promise.

There were laughs aplenty when Mary MacKillop College students gathered to meet older members of the community during intergenerational high school program Rite Now! in Adelaide, reports The Southern Cross.