FORMER refugee Anthony Gawlu feared that if he had not escaped from Myanmar he would have been recruited as a child soldier and used as a frontline fighter against his own ethnic people. Instead, years later, the 31-year-old has just completed his first...

A CATHOLIC treasure trove sitting outside St Stephen's Cathedral has nourished evangelisation in Brisbane archdiocese for 23 years, but now faces "big problems" that could shut the automatic door forever. St Paul's Book Centre, which sells Bibles, spiritual...

A LANDMARK class action in favour of victims of the 2011 southeast Queensland floods is reason for Brisbane's Eddy Delsorte to reflect on the day his Sherwood home went under nearly nine years ago. "I would never want to go through the flood again. It...

PLASTIC bottles that would normally end up in the recycling bins of Springfield homes and businesses have become a tool for local Catholics to raise money for the poor. Parishioners from Our Lady of the Southern Cross Parish in Springfield, on Brisbane's...

VENERATION of the relics of St Therese of Lisieux and her parents, Sts Louis and Zelie Martin, will be held in Brisbane churches in early February 2020. The first Brisbane parish to receive the relics will be Our Lady of Mt Carmel, Coorparoo, which is...

WHENEVER the genealogy of Jesus Christ was part of the scriptures proclaimed at Mass - as it will be for the Vigil Mass of Christmas - my Grandfather would come home rather underwhelmed. "Jeconiah was the father a Salathiel, and Salathiel the father of...

THE Catholic Leader has covered the lives, events and opinions of generations of Brisbane Catholics and - with this 5581st edition - we commemorate 90 years since the inaugural publication on December 5, 1929. Pre-dated by Brisbane Catholic publication...

A MONOLITHIC Roman-style basilica founded and abandoned at Cathedral Place in Fortitude Valley was one reason it took more than 100 years to dedicate St Stephen's Cathedral in Brisbane's CBD. St Stephen's was a cathedral that confounded expectations...

GLADSTONE parish said farewell to the last Marist Fathers who served the parish for 118 years at celebrations on November 23 and 24. Since 1901, there had been a succession of priests who ministered to the people of the city and the outlying towns and...

Four Catholic professionals with impressive resumes are white-collar workers of a different kind after being ordained deacons last week. The post Meet the new white-collar workers of Brisbane appeared first on The Catholic Leader .