ONE month after two Catholic sisters were executed on a road in South Sudan, their killers remain unidentified, and Church leaders are losing patience with an apparent lack of progress in resolving the murder. In a pastoral message, the country's bishops...

WE all know Rome wasn't built in a day, but LEGO architect Rocco Buttliere had three months, which definitely gave him a running start over Julius Caesar. Working quietly in his Chicago-area home during the lull of the pandemic in 2020, Mr Buttliere cobbled...

QUEENSLAND'S longest-serving priest Fr Lino Valente died aged 93 on September 14. Newly-retired Stanthorpe parish priest Fr Brian Connolly said Fr Valente was "an exceptional priest" who had left the world all the richer. Fr Valente was ordained in St...

LAWS allowing euthanasia have pass in Queensland today with a clear majority of support from members of parliament. During a conscience vote, MPs backed a Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) Bill by 61-30, legalising euthanasia for eligible Queenslanders from...

AS Queensland MPs prepare to vote for or against a bill to allow euthanasia, Australian Jesuit academic Father Frank Brennan has raised major concerns with the Queensland legislation that goes further than laws that already exist in four Australian states...

QUEENSLAND members of parliament will cast their votes today on whether to legalise euthanasia. After two days of debating a controversial Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) Bill, the state's Deputy Premier Steven Miles last night urged MPs not to let their...

DR Christian Rowan pointed out serious flaws in the proposed euthanasia laws in a speech to Queensland Parliament. Dr Rowan, who is the LNP member for Moggil, has served as president of the Australian Medical Association of Queensland and the Rural Doctors...

FALLING into the temptation of rejecting the cross and choosing a triumphalist form of Christianity leads to a faith that is superficial and sterile, Pope Francis said. Presiding over a Divine Liturgy on September 14, the feast of the Exaltation of the...

KATHRYN has watched her mum's dementia progress to the point that she now needs constant care. The second eldest of Dot's six children, Kathryn who is 64 years old, manages a roster system, dividing up the week between herself and two siblings to ensure...

FATHER Conor Power became the first man ordained to the priesthood for Brisbane Oratory at a packed Mass at Mary Immaculate Church, Annerley, last Saturday. Fr Power said it was a "beautiful" Mass with his mum and siblings supporting him as well as friends...