A survey sponsored by CRA in 2009 found that there were 8,422 Catholic Religious in Australia. Of that number, 5,927 were Religious Sisters, 884 Religious Brothers and 1,611 Religious order priests. Here are some of their stories:
Sister Corrie van den Bosch mss remembers Sister Agnes Ryan, a member of the founding group of the Missionary Sisters of Service, who died recently aged 95.
Since 1988, Sister of Charity, Pauline Staunton OAM has worked at Sydney’s Long Bay Correctional Complex as administrator of the NSW Chaplaincy Service.
Father Denis Andrew, the running-loving Carmelite Provincial recently completed the gruelling peace marathon in Dili, East Timor.
At 98, Jesuit Father Geoffrey Schneider is still going strong, working as a school chaplain at St Aloysius Junior School in Sydney, writes Catherine Marshall.
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