By Br Brian Grenier ON October 16, 1946, in the gymnasium of the Nuremberg Prison, 10 prominent Nazi political and military leaders were hanged for their part in the unspeakable savagery of the Holocaust. Conspicuous by his absence on that day was a man...

ZAC Kimber is achieving his personal best in all that he does, thanks to the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Mr Kimber was one of more than 1000 Centacare clients who transitioned to NDIS since July 2017 and he commemorated the milestone at a social...

LAY men need to rediscover their niche in the Church, Kippa-Ring parishioner Hugh O'Donnell says. Retired men, working men, fathers, brothers, sons - the Church needed men and men wanted to give of their time and talents according to their "niche", he...

EDUCATION is what lifts a country out of poverty, says Helen Plant, who has returned from her fifth trip to the Holy Trinity Community in Masaka, Uganda. Mrs Plant and seven others from mission outreach group Impact Uganda, an Emmanuel Community ministry,...

A PRIEST took time away from his parish in the heart of drought-ravaged country Queensland recently to visit Brisbane and say "Thank you". Fr Jayanthi Maddala, who ministers in the Central West Queensland parish of Blackall/Tambo in Rockhampton diocese,...

MIGRATING South Sudanese and Italian families share more than the hope found in settling in Brisbane. For 21 years, the local Italian Catholic Federation of Aspley-Geebung (FCI) and North Brisbane FCI have nurtured mutual support, cultural expression...

RAPPVILLE resident John Duncan, 83, lost his home in the early October blazes in northern New South Wales. His daughter Carol, a Newcastle City councillor, saved him and his partner Cassie, who were hiding in a steel shed, by tweeting to the Rural Fire...

THE life of newly declared St John Henry Newman holds a special significance for one Brisbane congregation - the Brisbane Oratory in Formation. Among the throng at the canonisation ceremony in Rome's St Peter's Square last Sunday was Brisbane Oratory's...

TWO thousand people gathered at Queens Gardens, equipped with placards emblazoned "Choose Life" and "Love them Both", and cut a protest column through Brisbane's streets to March for Life on Saturday, October 12. It marked almost a year since the Queensland...

MALTESE-born Charles Gauci has spent much of his first year as Bishop of Darwin moving about Australia's massive northern diocese that is two-and-a-half times the size of France. "I'm on a new adventure, walking alongside many people," Bishop Gauci confides...