THE hands that will save Congo and build a future worthy of its people belong to the Congolese people, to each one of them, but especially the young, Pope Francis said. The Pope met with 65,000 screaming, singing, swaying young people in Kinshasa's Martyrs'...

BILL Smith has been perfecting his lawn bowling technique since 1977. "The key to lawn bowls is practice, practice, practice," Mr Smith, a long-time parishioner at St James Church, Coorparoo, said. "And I've had plenty of time for that." The Queensland...

THE late Cardinal George Pell's funeral Mass drew thousands of mourners, filling Sydney's St Mary's Cathedral to capacity yesterday. Civic leaders, friends, and members of Pell's family remembered the Australian cardinal's dedication to the Church and...

CATHOLIC Social Services Australia has welcomed reports the Federal May Budget will focus on entrenched disadvantage for the most vulnerable Australians. Treasurer Jim Chalmers recently told the Guardian Australia's politics podcast he was working with...

SOPHIA College, Plainland has developed their own science, ecology and technology (SET) subject, designed to help students care for the environment and become solution-focused global citizens. "What is most exciting about this program is that it encourages...

FRANCISCAN Father Mario Debattista said there was a "real buzz" around his parish in Juba, South Sudan, for Pope Francis' upcoming visit this week. "There's really a sense of excitement," he said. Fr Debattista had been interviewed by a local TV news...

IN a country where most people are Christian and all are suffering from decades of violence and atrocities, Pope Francis told the Congolese to lay down their weapons and their rancour. "That is what Christ wants. He wants to anoint us with his forgiveness,...

THE spiritual similarities of Australia's Aborigines and the early Christian desert fathers will be explored in a new online retreat to be launched this month. The retreat is a unique collaboration between Sr Antonia Curtis of the Benedictine Abbey in...

BRISBANE Archbishop Mark Coleridge will join dozens of Church leaders from across Oceania for a five-day meeting in Fiji, with a clear agenda to help small Pacific Island nations struggling to survive climate change. Archbishop Coleridge said he was going...

POLICE in News South Wales are seeking a court order to block a protest by a LGBTQI group planned for the Sydney funeral of Cardinal George Pell. A police application to the NBSW Supreme Court will aim to prohibit the protest, citing safety concerns for...