The annual SVD Mission Day hosted by Dorish Maru College in Melbourne has been hailed an inspiration, with guest speakers calling on the faithful to live out their baptismal calling in a prophetic way in the spirit of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop.

Catholic Mission celebrated World Mission Month by welcoming Brother Andrew Tran Le Phuong SDB to Australia, celebrating the life-changing work of missionaries around the globe.

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.