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

For more than 40 years we have worked with asylum seekers, refugees, and trafficked persons. We have accompanied these people in refugee camps, detention centres and in the community as part of our mission of sharing God’s transforming mercy. We have witnessed at first hand the harmful impact of government policies on the lives of

The time is now – getting back on mission 12 May in Melbourne Sr Joan’s prophetic views on justice and equality, especially for women in the church, challenges those who would silence women and people at the margins.   Through her call to uncommon courage she can help us re-discover the place of religion in

  The Catherine McAuley Well-Woman’s HPV Project, completed in September 2021 in Wewak in Papua New Guinea, will have lifesaving outcomes, according to medical experts on the ground.   The first of its kind Mercy Works project, led by Sr Rachael Waisman RSM and midwife Rhonda Hikin, was implemented by the Sisters of Mercy over

Since the formation of the Institute 10 years ago the Institute archivists have worked tirelessly to bring together all collections from the former congregations to be housed under one roof, where the team can manage the collections in a cohesive way as well as carry out preservation and appraisal activities. Whilst executing these tasks, archivists