"MY name's John Hanley, I'm 51 and I've got motor neurone disease ..." was the matter-of-fact way the Brisbane Catholic introduced his first original song to the world last month. But, in his own words, he's not about to let the disease define him, and...

THROUGHOUT the world, engaged couples are reeling in shock. Meticulously planned weddings are unravelling amid the various lock-down policies. The disappointment is crushing and the change in plans come with very real financial consequences. Some couples...

IT'S a whole new world. Not sure about you but my collective household was pleased to turn the calendar to a new month this week. We don't mind all this extra togetherness in today's new world but we'd collectively decided that March went on for what...

This is a column by Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez published online on March 24 in Angelus, the media arm of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. LENT is always a desert journey that we make with Jesus, who fasted and was tested in the desert for 40...

A LETTER from a stranger can be a huge boost if you are alone in this time of isolation, or if you are stressed working on the frontline of the coronavirus crisis. Students at St Rita's College, Clayfield have written letters to the elderly, veterans...

CORONAVIRUS precautions are keeping people inside their homes but Brisbane catechist Anne Delsorte believes calls for self-isolation are a blessing in disguise for Catholic families. The director of the Graceville Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, which...

BARRY Guest places a handful of care packages at the foot of the gangplank, waves to the crew on board and retreats across the dock. It's a new way of outreach that Mr Guest, a seafarer pastoral worker, can offer to crews stuck on board ships and unable...

ECONOMIST Deacon Adam Walk said if he remembered anything about his grandparents' generation, it was that they saved their incomes and did not borrow too much. Most of them grew up through the Great Depression and the Second World War, he said, when times...

SINCE churches can't be adorned with palms branches this Sunday, Steven Bird has a plan to cover the front of his home instead. The father of three is among millions of Catholics who will enter Holy Week, which starts on Palm Sunday, with a heavy heart...

PARISH and school halls, boarding schools and other buildings owned by the Catholic Church will be put on standby as testing facilities and isolation centres for infected patients and front-line workers. Catholic Emergency Relief Australia (CERA), which...