Jesuit Refugee Service has launched its annual Winter Appeal in support of the thousands of refugees and asylum seekers it accompanies and serves each year.

The skills, courage and resourcefulness of a small group of Dominican nuns who arrived in Australia from England in 1883 will be honoured when St Dominic’s Priory College holds its 140th anniversary dinner this month, reports The Southern Cross.

Nine schools have celebrated the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first Presentation Sisters in the Wagga Wagga Diocese.

Sr Cecilia Susanne Nguyen is more than appreciative of God’s intercession in her life—she’s indebted to him, after it might’ve been much different in a poor and war-torn 20th century Vietnam, reports The Catholic Weekly.

For centuries, men have predominantly overseen the academic domain of theology and key committees in the Church, but women have an essential role to play. Sr M. Isabell Naumann, a Schoenstatt Sister of Mary, shares insights on her journey as a woman in various leadership roles within the Church, reports Vatican News.