Archdiocese of Brisbane

The leaders of Catholic Religious Australia (CRA) and the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) have welcomed Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s apology to survivors of institutional child sexual abuse and recommitted to working with the community to eliminate the scourge of child sexual abuse. “The National Apology today and the apologies made by institutions during the…

This Sunday, we will unveil a new shrine that will be dedicated in The Cathedral of St Stephen.

Two-Minute Homily by Fr Anthony Mellor for the Twenty-Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time 2018. “…It doesn’t matter whether it is two thousand years ago or two months ago, this is a recurring tale of blind ambition and human squabbling.”

To mark the end of the Year of Youth in November this year, young Catholics will converge upon an inconspicuous Brisbane warehouse that spends its weekdays as a carpark. The Youth Evangelisation Office team leader, Melissa Fenech, paints a picture of what to expect at this Year of Youth Archdiocesan Celebration. “There are so many…

Two-Minute Homily by Fr Nigel Sequeira for the Twenty-Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time 2018. “There is something within us that has a longing for eternal life. What happens to us after death? What awaits us?”

“Suddenly this text spoke to me in a way that differed from the usual interpretation. Isn’t Jesus saying to us with these words: Why are you asking me for lots of faith? Maybe your faith is ‘far too big’? Only if it decreases, until it is as small as a mustard seed, will it give…

“Those who pretend to reform the Church with the same means used to reform temporal society – not only will they fail in their undertaking but they will infallibly end by finding themselves outside the Church…it is they who exclude themselves from her by a kind of tragic fatalism. The only way to reform the…

Two-minute Homily by Fr Odinaka Nwadike for the Twenty-Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time 2018. “Human beings are social by nature. Of ourselves we are incomplete. We need others to exist.”

In the latest installment of Keeping the Faith, Donna interviews Broncos CEO, Paul White.

Two-Minute Homily by Fr Wrex Woolnough for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time 2018. “And so we create divisions not just in our world, but among ourselves as Christians. But, let’s face it: Who is not one of us?”