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16 Religious Leaders sign a Common Statement on the provision of high-quality end-of-life care
28 October 2019A number of religious leaders have come together to underline their commitment to palliative care and a rejection of legalisation of 'voluntary assisted dying' in Queensland. There is significance in so many religious groups finding common ground on this...- These last few weeks have been bruising for the Catholic Church in Australia. It seems that everywhere we turn we see stories about the Church and its failures with child sexual abuse. We have to accept that. The Church will never walk away from its responsibilities...
- These last few weeks have been bruising for the Catholic Church in Australia. It seems that everywhere we turn we see stories about the Church and its failures with child sexual abuse. We have to accept that. The Church will never walk away from its responsibilities...
Archbishop's 2018 Christmas Message
14 December 2018These 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...Archbishop's 2018 Christmas Message
14 December 2018These 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...LISTENING. LEARNING. PRAYING
1 December 2018AN 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,...LISTENING. LEARNING. PRAYING
1 December 2018AN 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,...To the People of God of the Archdiocese of Brisbane
2 September 2018Brothers and sisters: Peace be with you! As we cross another threshold in the long journey of responding to the crisis of sexual abuse in the Church, I want to speak a word to you, a word of hope and encouragement. I speak first to the victims and their...To the People of God of the Archdiocese of Brisbane
2 September 2018Brothers and sisters: Peace be with you! As we cross another threshold in the long journey of responding to the crisis of sexual abuse in the Church, I want to speak a word to you, a word of hope and encouragement. I speak first to the victims and their...Beginning the Journey of Lent: A Word from Archbishop Mark
9 February 2018Greetings to all of you as we look towards Lent and to Easter that lies beyond. Last December, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse handed down its final report, as you know. Like the Australian Government and many other...