Archdiocese of Brisbane

In May 2018, Father Francesco Mary Gavazzi was ordained a priest with the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal at St Patrick's Cathedral in New York. The ordination marked a 12-year journey for the Australian native that began...

AFTER world leaders gathered in Poland for the United Nations' annual climate conference, a Catholic advocate in the Pacific has warned of the environmental damage being suffered on her island home. "The effects of climate...

2018. IT was the year a fully electric vehicle had its first test run on Australian roads - here in Queensland. And it was the year Brisbane Catholic schools embarked on a pioneering clean-energy project that aims to...

A JUDGE has described how Australia's mainstream media can exert subtle pressure during court cases, as he quashed the conviction of Archbishop Philip Wilson for covering up child sexual abuse. The former Adelaide...

By Mark Bowling A REFUGEE chef from war-torn Syria is working towards a fresh start in Australia by sharing his culinary skills and culture at a new bakery-cafe south of Brisbane. After fleeing Aleppo with his young Catholic...

SR Elisabeth Keane loved life as a teacher and mentor of young women, and then she discovered the joys of parish ministry, but now she's really at home in prison. Every week for the past 18 years, she's been visiting women...

ACCLAIMED foreign correspondent Sean Dorney remains firmly in the limelight, picking up two major awards recently despite his daily struggle with motor neurone disease. Diagnosed with the debilitating disease last year and...

IN February 2017, 13-year-old Tamlin Hall split her leg open on a flight of timber stairs at her family home in Brisbane. She was taken to the emergency room for what she thought would be routine surgery. Days later, she was...

CATHOLIC chaplains have reacted to the findings of a new youth survey, saying the high number of young people concerned about mental health should be a call to action to the Church as well as Australia's mental health...

PARENTS must take responsibility for young people using their smartphones, including cracking down on rampant teen sexting, a Catholic education leader says. "Phones are here to stay so how do we use them properly?" deputy...

SWEET singing primary schoolers have brought Christmas cheer to Mater Private Hospital Springfield. Patient Audrey Chapman, who has spent almost four weeks at the hospital for radium treatment, said it was wonderful to be...

BRISBANE parishioners have celebrated a mission accomplished after 18 years supporting projects in East Timor that have empowered a remote, war-torn Catholic community and yielded lifelong friendships. In 2000, parishioners...

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...

THE courage of firefighters battling to save lives and property has been recounted by a priest as Queensland turns to recovery after a fortnight of scorching conditions classified as "catastrophic" for the first time. "This...

HE has celebrated Mass on top of Mount Kilimanjaro, sat around the campfire with the Aboriginal people of the Pilbara in Western Australia and now this priest from Tanzania is finding his feet in the heart of Brisbane. Holy...

Question: Tell me about your early years. Answer: I grew up in Chermside at the end of the tram terminus. Of a father who served in the Second World War who barely survived it, and a mother who, as a very young person...

A NEW group of pastoral carers has been commissioned for service in Brisbane archdiocese. They were commissioned at Mass recently in St Stephen's Chapel after having completed a new course being offered by Centacare...

OUTSTANDING refugee student Soumi Gopalakrishnan faces deportation together with her Tamil family but, for now, she is celebrating the prospect of fulfilling her dream of studying to become a doctor. The 19-year-old was...

FOR twelve years, a loyal band of Rosies volunteers has buzzed around the Beenleigh area distributing hot meals to the hungry. Last week, they were rewarded for their hard work, when a superannuation fund gifted them a van...

CATHOLIC religious orders across Australia - religious women and men - are marking a national Day of Sorrow and Promise on Sunday, December 2. The day coincides with the start of Advent and of a new Church year, and is to...