Archdiocese of Brisbane

ON Boxing Day last year I went for a hike up Mount Lofty. It is a relatively short drive from the Adelaide city centre and provided a wonderful vista of the surrounds, as well as the opportunity for me to clear my head of...

AUTHOR and archivist Fr Denis Martin has relished uncovering many treasures during decades of research. The 75-year-old will soon retire after 47 years as a priest of the Archdiocese of Brisbane, including three decades of...

FOUR Springfield parishioners have come back to the Church and the sacraments after attending the popular worldwide evangelisation program, Alpha. Judy Fakaosi Siaki, Brett Larsson, Jessica Thompson and Victoria Laban...

REGENTS Park parishioner and former lifesaver John McClelland was among several Catholics who were recognised in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours List. Mr McClelland joined fellow Catholics honoured including...

HENDRA parishioners have always been sitting closer to Heaven than others. In July 1929, Brisbane archdiocese secured the most elevated portion of land in Hendra - a flat and aluminium-rich farming suburb. Ninety years...

THE biggest killer of Australian men between the age of 15 and 45 was suicide in 2018 - a number which was higher nationwide among police officers, North Brisbane CIB Detective Sergeant Andrew Ayres said. It was seeing these...

PLENARY Council 2020 has moved into its next preparation phase with an announcement of six national themes for discernment that emerged from a historic process of listening to the voices of more than 222,000 people. National...

CATHOLIC schools must help parents teach young people that biological sex and gender are naturally fixed at birth and part of God's plan for creation, the Congregation for Catholic Education said. In a document published on...

HOW'S this for a job description - "My job is to get out of the way, and let God do His work"? That's what it boils down to for Toni Janke in her role as Indigenous Services co-ordinator within Centacare Family and...

FATHER Leo Francis Donnelly's life was big - he was a big man with a "big heart" and "big achievements". Lismore Bishop Gregory Homeming said Fr Donnelly exemplified megalopsychia - his body was not big enough to contain his...

YOUNG Catholic Lachlan Dent lives his life by a simple ethos - give your time and talents to other people. The 22-year-old recently was awarded the top prize at the north Queensland Volunteer awards in Townsville for his...

CATHOLIC leaders in south-east Queensland have celebrated a decade-long reaffirmation of a "covenant of understanding" with the local Anglican church - part of an ecumenical journey described as "urgent". "We are in new...

This is Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge's homily at the priestly ordination of Brendan Gormley and Joshua Whitehead at St Stephen's Cathedral on May 31. John and Jesus - Brendan and Joshua -an odd pairing, you say. But...

ST Vincent de Paul Society's Queensland chief executive officer Kevin Mercer is getting ready to sleep rough on the streets of Brisbane for the annual CEO Sleep Out. "The CEO Sleep Out is an annual event where we raise funds...

BRISBANE Archbishop Mark Coleridge understands the complex moment for the Church in Australia as he prepares to lead more than 40 bishops on an Ad Limina visit to meet Pope Francis. "I think we are a Church that is...

A PANEL of three judges has retired to consider whether there are grounds to quash a sexual assault conviction against Cardinal George Pell. During a two-day hearing in Victoria's Court of Appeal, prosecutors maintained a...

THE Church is pushing ahead with historic safeguarding measures aimed at tightening protection and governance - in line with recommendations of Australia's Royal Commission into child sexual abuse. The National Catholic...

CARDINAL George Pell's lawyer has told an appeal court that his client had a "strong, credible" alibi and that crimes of sexually abusing two choirboys in St Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne were "literally and logically...

A CANON lawyer has spoken out about the correct form of prayers, after a mainstream media furore about some Brisbane Catholic girls' schools teaching gender-neutral descriptions to replace traditional terms like "Lord...

IN my childhood I was introduced to the story and the image of the Sacred Heart. We were gently taught that June was a special month in which - in small but meaningful ways we focused on the total and unconditional love of...