Sister Janet Mead, who died in January this year, was recently back in the spotlight with an animated film being run as part of the Adelaide Film Festival and celebrations of the fiftieth anniversary of her much loved ‘Rock Mass’. Mary-Anne Duigan RSM has written below about these two wonderful events.    The last

Bishop Michael McKenna will officiate at the reception and blessing of the new sculpture “Come Sit Awhile: Catherine in the Garden” and two images of St Mary’s College on the cloister wall, gifted to the Diocese by the Sisters of Mercy.   The Sisters of Mercy would like to invite you to the unveiling and

    ABC Journalist Hilda Wayne has explored the important relationship between Australia and Papua New Guinea at a recent talk held on August 12 at the Mercy Hub organised by Cookhouses n Tanks a Lot.   Hilda Wayne, ABC broadcaster and producer, works at the ABC studios in Southbank and presents regular podcasts to

  Since 2018 Sibling Café, which is located in Melbourne’s Mercy Hub, has been serving delicious coffees and meals for the Carlton North community. Unlike most cafés, the coffee and food are merely just one positive outcome, for Sibling is a café with a difference making a difference in the lives of both its volunteers

  Two members of the Institute’s newly formed Water Advocacy Taskforce recently delivered a presentation focusing on rivers and the Murray-Darling Basin.   In 2022 the Institute formed a Water Advocacy Taskforce to address serious areas of water management being experienced globally and locally.   The Water Advocacy Taskforce is part of the Institute’s Integral

  Following the successful inaugural program in 2022, the Institute, in collaboration with Catholic Religious Australia and Catholic Earthcare, is again pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for emerging leaders in Integral Ecology with the 2023 Mercy Integral Ecology Emerging Leaders Fellowship Program.   This fully-funded, 12 month (part-time) fellowship program is for those already

  On Tuesday June 28, Gladstone Parish Community celebrated 30 years of Mercy Associate presence in Gladstone. Mass was celebrated in Star of the Sea Church with Father Ashwin Acherya presiding over a congregation of over 40 people. The Mass was a true celebration of this significant milestone and the hymns chosen and beautiful singing

    Millions of Australians rejoiced at the decision to allow the Murugappans to return to Biloela. One Sister, Kay O’Neill RSM, witnessed their emotional homecoming.   For refugees, asylum seekers and their supporters in Australia there has been little cause for celebration in recent years.   Many people who have sought refuge here face

  On Wednesday, 1 June 2022, as part of National Reconciliation Week, Seville Mercy Conference Centre opened Cairns’ very first Reconciliation Garden.   The garden was created in collaboration with Minjil, a Cairns-based Indigenous organisation who are passionate about sharing their culture through ceremony, experience and immersion.   Seville was blessed to have the Minjil

  Over 600 people poured into the Adelaide Town Hall on Thursday night, 19 May, to hear Sr Joan Chittister OSB deliver the Janette Gray Memorial Lecture. Sr Joan was introduced by Sr Kathleen Williams, a Sister of Mercy who was not only a friend of Sr Janette Gray but also the first chairperson of

Media Release 7 April 2022: World Health Day ‘It’s Now or Never’: Sisters of Mercy urge government to act on the IPCC report Australia’s governments must undertake transformational change to address the climate emergency, the Leader of the Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea, Sr Eveline Crotty RSM said today