Archdiocese of Brisbane

CATHOLICS have a chance to make known their views on euthanasia as a Queensland parliamentary health committee begins examining ways to ease the pain and suffering of the terminally ill. A year-long "end-of-life" inquiry...

PRIME Minister Scott Morrison has called teaching "a calling" as he unveiled a Closing the Gap plan to encourage more teachers to work at remote Indigenous community schools. Under the plan, teacher graduates would have...

BRISBANE Archbishop Mark Coleridge has described the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church as "a global emergency", and a Vatican summit this week "requires a global response". For Archbishop Coleridge, president of the...

INSIDERS have said the Church's decision to seek the advice of the LGBTI community has "stirred unease" among some Catholics. Many fear the conference could result in radical change at a time when issues such as the...

NO-man's-land encrusted with cattle carcasses and graziers hovering in helicopters, unable to reach their bogged, starved and diseased animals, tells the tale of heartache felt across the rural areas of Townsville diocese...

PAUL Finch had personal reasons for joining the St Vincent de Paul Society, just like thousands of others over their 125 years. Mr Finch lost his Ipswich home in the 1974 Brisbane floods and, inspired by the people who...

AMONG any accolades or commendations that come Peter Maher's way as he retires as Vinnies' chief in Queensland none are likely to be more precious than a few words from one of his daughters. Looking back over more than 14...

THREE leading Catholic schools in Brisbane have started 2019 with a new two-year religious course to coincide with the implementation of the ATAR system. The new course is named "3:16", with reference to the scripture of...

FROM its impoverished beginnings in one room of a convent to a chorus of 800 voices overflowing a cathedral 90 years later, the story of Brigidine College, Indooroopilly, has been one of strength and gentleness. Brisbane...

IN 1968 the American artist Andy Warhol gave birth to the idea that in the future everyone would be world-famous for 15 minutes. The prediction must have been inconceivable at the time. There was no Internet, and for the...

IN the wake of Townsville's "once in a century" monsoonal deluge, a leading ecologist warns extreme weather linked to climate change has the potential to dramatically shift the way Australians live and work, and force...

MOST expecting mothers plan for a rushed trip to the hospital to give birth, but Jane Arnott* knew her baby was already on its way. The young mother, a resident at Brisbane's Pregnancy Crisis safe house could feel the final...

THE Holy Spirit has spoken in 40,000 ways during the Listening and Dialogue phase of the Plenary Council 2020, and analysis of the responses show patterns are emerging. The Listening and Dialogue phase ends on Ash Wednesday...

RAINS have stopped and thousands of Townsville residents begin the task of picking through their homes to count the cost of an historic flood disaster. Pope Francis offered his condolences after the floods in a letter penned...

BRISBANE Archbishop Mark Coleridge has appealed for concerted Church action and cultural change ahead of the summit on clerical sexual abuse Pope Francis has called for February 21-24 for the presidents of bishops...

FOUR fresh faces have found their vocations with the Sisters of St Paul de Chartres, wedding Christ in their perpetual profession at St Stephen's Cathedral on February 2. Sr Marion Tran, Sr Maria Josephine Phan, Sr Anna Pham...

BRISBANE Archbishop Mark Coleridge has urged lawmakers to support a broad, holistic re-examination of religious freedom. Archbishop Coleridge, president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, raised the hot-button...

IF, as a result of the vagaries of the academic timetable at the theological college, I am unable to cycle back to the priory in time to attend the daily Conventual Mass, I instead stroll down the few blocks that separate...

PERPETUAL Adoration in Banyo Nundah parish was credited for the parish's "highest tally" of current and incoming seminarians. Banyo Nundah parish priest Fr Bernie Gallagher was given the accolade at the conclusion of last...

ON my way to night lectures at the University of Queensland many years ago I often paused to read an inscription emblazoned on the wall above the entrance to the Forgan Smith Building: "Great is truth and mighty above all...