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Catholic Religious Australia

  Catholic Religious Australia, the public name of the Australian Conference of Leaders of Religious Institutes (ACLRI), is the peak body for all Religious in Australia. Its purpose is to promote, support and represent religious life in the Australian Church.  ... [more]

WELCOME TO OUR WEBSITE …

  Welcome to the website for Catholic Religious Australia and its related e-journal, pathways!
Both these exciting forms of communication provide refreshing and innovative insight into the work of more than 175 Religious Congregations based in Australia. Both this website and pathways promote the contemplative and prophetic service offered through the ministries and lives of more than 8000 Australian Religious at home and abroad. [more]

Bold enough to speak with one voice

From the CRA President

  Witness to cooperation
The multi-faith theme of CRA’s June national assembly will speak to the contemplative and prophetic role of religious men and women as the interreligious dialogue with the Abrahamic faiths opens up respect, esteem and appreciation. [More...]
 

OUT and ABOUT

  In hope, here I am
International speaker and prolific writer England’s Fr Timothy Radcliffe OP will offer hope and meaning to a “beautiful vocation” when he speaks with religious women and men in Brisbane in June. [More...]
 
 
Every child counts
Children with intellectual disabilities have a natural connection to God that Catholic schools are able to develop and support. This is why it is so important for Catholic children with disabilities to have access to a Catholic education. Could Catholic schools share the cost of making specialist education available? [More...]
 
  Rare privilege
A woman who had the rare opportunity to help shape a new group of Australian-founded religious women, leading them through the tumultuous post-Vatican II years, has been farewelled by her congregation, family and friends. [More...]
 
  Paul: Model of faith
A relevance of St Paul today is that he models for the modern Church what it is to have known Jesus by faith only, says scripture scholar Michele Connolly RSJ, one of the three speakers at the e-conference to mark the end of the Year of Paul. [More...]
 
  Interfaith dialogue agenda
CRA is set to join Australia’s interfaith dialogue through its national assembly while two leading Benedictine figures from the world stage will be in Melbourne later this year. Joan Chittister OSB and Laurence Freeman OSB will be among an impressive list of speakers – including the Dalai Lama – at the 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions, in Melbourne, in December. [More...]