More than 55 women gathered at the Shrine of the Holy Innocents in Kellyville, for an At the Well Gathering – an evening of prayer, dinner and heartfelt conversation. In partnership with a local women’s ministry, ‘Women of St Clare’, this gathering offered something increasingly rare: a space where women could be heard, held space for, and honest about living as a Catholic woman in a secular world.  [...]

Ten religious and four lay staff work in the Diocesan Chaplaincy Support team run by Catholic Care with support from the Parramatta Catholic Foundation. The chaplains provide comfort and hope to children and their families through faith and prayer at Blacktown, Cumberland, Hawkesbury, Mt Druitt, Nepean and Westmead hospitals, and The Children’s Hospital at Westmead.  [...]