Archdiocese of Brisbane

Two-Minute Homily by Fr Stephen Byrnes for the Third Sunday of Advent 2018.“John’s proclamation ensures that the baptism he’s offering is understood as an assault on the status quo…”

These days there’s a lot of death around both locally and internationally. Locally we are dealing with issues of the beginning of life and the end of life and again the shadow of death falls across that kind of debate, as we look at abortion and euthanasia. Internationally, well you’ve got immigrants all around the world striving for…

The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference is pleased that about 90 per cent of all parishes, diocesan schools and ministries have now officially joined the National Redress Scheme. Social Services Minister Paul Fletcher has today announced that 27 of 35 dioceses are participating institutions in the Scheme, the next step in a months-long process to have…

A few suburbs from where he grew up, Fr Bryan Roe stands on soil that will become home to some young Queenslanders in desperate need. Fr Bryan knows their plight – he was once a teenage tennis star on the path to a famous professional career. Within 24 hours, he was paralysed and in need…

Two-Minute Homily by Fr Chukwudi Chinaka for the Second Sunday of Advent 2018. “We cannot pretend that we do not know the awesomeness that comes with Christmas.”

The Archdiocese of Brisbane’s third independent audit into its safeguards for children and vulnerable adults has found its parishes to be complying with the safeguarding policy. The Archdiocese has released the external audit of its Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults Prevention and Protection Policy, carried out across the region from the NSW border, north to…

AN ADVENT PASTORAL LETTER By Archbishop Mark Coleridge At a time when the average age of Catholics in Australia is 59, it has been good to celebrate the Year of Youth which is now coming to an end. Perhaps it would’ve been better to have a decade of youth, but the year was a promising…

Two-Minute Homily by Fr Denis Scanlan for the First Sunday of Advent 2018. “So, as people of hope, we are the ones sent by Jesus to break down barriers and restore God’s peace.”

Parliament should not repeal protections for religious schools but should provide a positive recognition of the right of schools to operate according to their faith, the Australian Catholic bishops have said. The Shadow Attorney General today announced that the Opposition would introduce a bill to repeal the exemptions for religious schools in section 38(3) of…

Two-Minute Homily by Fr Peter Dillon for the Feast of Christ the King 2018. “Now while earthly rulers load heavy burdens on their subjects, here we have a king who, on the contrary, carried his people’s burdens upon himself.”