STANDING toe-to-toe with United States President Donald Trump over the Mexico-US border policy launched Sister Norma Pimentel into the public spotlight last year. This year, Sr Pimentel was named among TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people, which...

"The church is convinced of the necessity to reaffirm as definitive teaching that euthanasia is a crime against human life because, in this act, one chooses directly to cause the death of another innocent human being." The post Vatican reaffirms euthanasia...

COVID-19 has forced Fr Gary Walker, a man who once craved a life of adventure and excitement, to do something he's never dreamed of doing - stop and rest. Even though the 76-year-old Columban missionary is retired, he's used to being busy and he was intending...

"The last will be first and the first will be last." Now there's a phrase that we've all heard (misused) before. It is scriptural, of course: it occurs in one of the gospel passages that will be proclaimed this month. It is spoken by Jesus during his...

Play a critical high-level role in the strategic leadership and oversight of Rosies, fostering self-worth and community cohesion throughout Queensland About Rosies Rosies is a Queensland based not-for-profit organisation sharing unconditional friendship...

How we respect and treat some of our most vulnerable - our sick, aged, and terminally ill - is a vital consideration for many Queenslanders preparing to vote. After years of heated and polarizing debate, it will be the state MPs we elect on October 31...

"AND the winner is ... Sydney." Those words, declared in 1993 by Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch, spoke volumes about the public drive and commitment displayed by John Fahey, who died on September 12, aged 75, after a battle with leukaemia...

CATHOLIC relief agencies are gearing up for another summer of extreme hazards after the Bureau of Meteorology changed its outlook to a "La Nina Alert". "We need to be better prepared at local levels for climate emergencies," Catholic Social Services Australia...

TERRY and Rita Tolhurst toasted 50 years of marriage in a way they "had never anticipated" with 30 family members on the screen via Zoom on August 17. The couple said the day was "absolutely brilliant" even if they couldn't meet up in person. Their anniversary...

BRISBANE Archbishop Mark Coleridge has called for compassion as the Queensland Government maintains tough COVID-19 quarantine rules that barred a Canberra-based nurse from attending her father's funeral. "If proper precautions are taken in the interests...