Caritas Australia has launched Project Compassion 2025, its Lenten fundraising and awareness appeal which sees 1,700 schools and 1,200 parishes across Australia take part each year, calling on the community to ‘Unite Against Poverty’.

It’s that time of the year when individuals, schools and large global businesses flick their light switches off for Earth Hour in an act of solidarity with all those who are committed to caring for our common home.

This Lent, as we share in the grace of the Jubilee Year, I would like to propose a few reflections on what it means to journey together in hope, and on the summons to conversion that God in his mercy addresses to all of us, as individuals and as a community, writes Pope Francis in his Lenten Message.

His ministry has taken him to several, often dangerous, countries around the world, but 50 years after joining the Jesuits Fr Peter Hosking SJ now finds himself back serving where it all began, reports The Southern Cross.

Greetings to you from Rome where CRA Vice President Philippa Murphy FDNSC, National Executive Director Anne Walker and I have been engaged in meeting with various Vatican Departments (Dicasteries) in the past week, writes CRA President Br Gerard Brady CFC. Being my first experience, I was unsure what would occur and what might be the benefit of such an opportunity.