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2009 marks 400 years of Mary Ward's institute which comprises Congregation of Jesus (CJ) and Loreto IBVM. There will be celebrations around the world and throughout Loreto communities in Australia to acknowledge and celebrate this remarkable woman.

The federal government has announced $1 million in funding for NGOs fighting human trafficking.

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Sr Chrsitine Burke, Loreto Sisters Province Leader, has written to ABC Radio National Management, urging them to reconsider the fate of the Religion Report.

Mary Wright, former leader IBVM Loreto Sisters worldwide, heads to Rome this week after accepting an invitation from the Vatican to join the team of canon lawyers in the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

The Mary Ward Justice Lecture Making a Noise, Making a Difference: the media and social justice. Loreto Kirribilli, Sydney. Presented by Julian Morrow (The Chaser) and Maxine McKew (MP).

The Allan and Maria Myers Academic Centre present Behind the Scenes at the Vatican - with Mary Wright IBVM. Mary Wright is a former Superior General of the Loreto Sisters international institute.

In September several ACRATH members, including eleven women religious and colleagues, spent a week in Canberra lobbying Parliament on human trafficking issues.

"Philosophical reflection was one of the great loves of Joan’s life. She cherished not only the intellectual rigour of philosophy, but also its existential import in engaging the deepest questions of life’s meaning"

Sr Ephigenia Gachiri is a Kenyan Loreto Sister campaigning against female genital mutilation. Learn about her work and read the transrcipt from her ABC radio interview with Stephen Crittenden.