We are excited to announce that the 2025 Rosalie Rendu Forum will be held online on Thursday 16 October 2025 from 6:30pm. This year's theme is: "Raising our Voice - Speaking up for Social Justice".  

The Forum honours the legacy of Sr Rosalie Rendu and acknowledges the contributions that women make in the community, inspiring women's leadership, and raising awareness of critical social justice issues. 

Advocacy for social justice is a key element of the good works of the Society. We share an obligation to identify and address the structural injustices that cause inequality, poverty and exclusion. We are called to empower the people we assist to speak for themselves and to speak up on behalf of people when they are ignored. 

This forum will draw on the expertise of leaders who have been engaged in advocacy in different settings and using different methods to address the consequences and, importantly, the very causes of injustice that have affected the people they serve and with whom they stand in solidarity. 

Stay tuned for more information!

Visions of Women Leading for Mission

We’d like to bring to your attention an upcoming event involving a group known as the Young Catholic Women’s Fellowship.

This Fellowship focuses on the formation, accompaniment, voice, and contribution of young women in the Catholic Church in Australia. More information about the program is available on the NCE website: Young Catholic Women’s Fellowship - National Centre for Evangelisation, Australia

The 2024/2025 cohort, which includes our very own Vincentian Ashley Carvalho, is completing their studies and will be participating in a free online seminar hosted by Australian Catholic University (ACU) titled:

Visions of Women Leading for Mission

📅 Date: October 9
🕖 Time: 7pm–9pm AEDT
💻 Location: Online (Free seminar)

This seminar is a wonderful opportunity to hear young women discern ways of supporting women in leadership within the Church in Australia.

We strongly encourage as many Vincentians as possible—and others in your community who are interested—to attend and witness the thoughts and aspirations of these inspiring young women.