Restructuring the working week to include hours spent on caring for family members or in community volunteering is one way societies could better recognise the dignity of women, a Vatican representative told a Sydney gathering for International Women’s Day, reports The Catholic Weekly.

The Daughters of our Lady of the Sacred Heart and the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart have held a joyful commemoration in Sydney of the 200th Anniversary since the birth of their founder, Fr Jules Chevalier.

Five years after its establishment, the enclosed Carmelite convent in Mathoura, New South Wales, is celebrating its first fully home-grown member, reports The Catholic Weekly.

I am presently at a phase of life where one by one several of those who were guides, examples and mentors for me from my religious congregation are, one by one, slipping away. Naturally each passing provides a poignant time of reflection. Memory, gratitude, loss - all are real, all are there, writes CRA President Fr Peter Jones OSA.

Bathurst might be well known for its motor racing circuit, but there's one thing that is just as important - it's heritage, including its religious heritage, reports The Western Advocate.