Caritas Australia’s Project Compassion launched annually on Ash Wednesday, helps over 1.8 million people in Australia and overseas every year - walking together with those in crisis. By The Record.

In his 2022 Pastoral Letter for Lent, Bunbury Bishop Gerard Holohan has said Lent is the springtime of the Christian life.

“As we seek to renew our efforts to nurture the divine life within ‘to the full’, Christ-like inner beauty emerges,” he said.

Armadale Parish Priest Fr Mark Baumgarten, known to many as the ‘Piano Priest’, has released his first album titled Now and Not Yet – which takes listeners on a journey from his younger years to his priestly ministry. By Amanda Murthy.

The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) have gathered information on the theological foundations for diocesan pastoral councils and their history in Australia, as part of its response to The Light from the Southern Cross, a national review of diocesan and parish governance and management.

In his 2022 Lenten Message, Pope Francis has said Christians are called to sow goodness their entire lives, but even more so during Lent.

Christians must resist “concupiscence,” the tendency to sin, which is a weakness that leads to “selfishness and all evil and finds in the course of history, a variety of ways to lure men and women into sin,” he wrote.

Medal of the Order of Australia recipient Brian Peter Landers AFSM OAM said that coming from a large family, and his faith upbringing naturally drew him to ‘lend a hand’, wherever he saw the opportunity to. By Amanda Murthy.

Crime writer Evie Howland is supposed to be planning the wedding of her dreams to her billionaire fiancé Daniel Bradley, but she’s seriously entangled in the 16th book of her successful crime series.
With a serious case of writer’s block, her protagonists are becoming almost impossible to wrangle.

The Knights of the Southern Cross (KSC) Education Foundation Inc have offered some 50 scholarships in 2022 to help meet the need to provide quality Religious Education in the Catholic school system.

The 25th anniversary of the establishment of the World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life was celebrated by religious in the Archdiocese of Perth on Wednesday, 2 February at St Michael the Archangel Chapel. By Amanda Murthy.

Three parish priests are examining what a ‘slavery-proofed’ parish would look like and how to implement slavery-free parish morning teas during 2022.

With the support of their parish community, they plan to start the project on February 8, which is the feast day of Saint Josephine Bakhita, Patron Saint of victims of modern slavery and human trafficking.