Archdiocese of Brisbane

A BRISBANE pro-life campaigner has not discounted further civil disobedience, after the High Court dismissed his appeal to laws that prescribe 150-metre "safe access zones" around abortion clinics. "I don't think it is right...

IT is a difficult task to change people's attitude or mind-set, as anyone engaged in education will readily tell you. To change whole personalities, to turn around life's patterns, needs a miracle. Twelve men, unlettered in...

BENEDICTINE Father Robert Nixon says his first year as a priest has been an incredible experience. And the key to his experience - the grace of God. Fr Nixon said he could feel the grace of God working through him in the...

JUST as we have been remembering the horrors of Rwanda 25 years ago, another anniversary passed almost unnoticed this month - the 20th anniversary of a Church massacre on Australia's doorstep, in East Timor. In April 1999...

NINE Timorese war veterans will stand alongside Australian veterans during next week's Anzac Day Mass in Brisbane's St Stephen's Cathedral. The attendance of Timorese veterans is becoming a tradition and has an extra...

FORMER St Vincent de Paul Society Queensland state president Brian Moore, who regularly wrote a column for The Catholic Leader, has died from a long-term illness. A Vinnies member for more than 50 years, Mr Moore held...

"BELONGING" is a strong, motivating force for eight teachers and staff from one Brisbane college who will join the Catholic Church this Easter. "I honestly feel that I will be officially one of 'us' which to me is awesome...

CATHOLICS across the world were united in sorrow and prayer after a devastating fire engulfed the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris causing major damage. Images broadcast around the world showed the French cathedral in flames...

EL Salvadorian-born Ana Hatherley remembers the excitement of boarding an airplane for the first time, bound for Australia. It was 1988, she was six years old, the eldest of three children. Young Ana and her family were...

WHEN a former Governor General was baptised at the age of 85 last year - a man who had previously been an avowed atheist - I was interested to hear not only what had drawn him to the Church, but also what had driven him away...

CATHOLICS around Australia have used the liturgical season of Lent to restrict their use of social media applications like Facebook. The traditional custom of giving up something for Lent is voluntary; but during his 2019...

LOSS, interruption and destruction - millions of people were desolated after Cyclone Idai hit Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi late last month. Jesuit Conference of Africa and Madagascar president Fr Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator...

ALL over Australia, people are again discussing the morality of ending one's own life. While there still seems to be a strong taboo around suicide, many people seem to think that under certain circumstances - for example, in...

WHEN Alejandro Quijada Ode emigrated to Brisbane in 2016 the inflation rate in his home country of Venezuela was 800 per cent. Today it is estimated to be as high as 10 million per cent. A 2019 United Nations report...

THE 2019 Federal Budget continues to ignore Australia's most disadvantaged citizens, St Vincent de Paul Society national president Claire Victory said. Ms Victory said the Budget, delivered by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg...

TWO months since Townsville was devastated by floods, and after the television crews, Twitter hash-tags and international news media spotlight passed on, one thousand people were still homeless and thousands more still...

A NEW Tasmanian law making gender optional on birth certificates still has to pass scrutiny of the state's lower house and be considered by the state's independent law reform institute. Amendments to the controversial bill...

SUICIDES of Aboriginal Australians as young as 11 are placing enormous financial burden on the indigenous community, Murri Ministry co-ordinator Ravina Waldren said. "There are huge costs associated with burying our loved...

OF the ways in which Jesus defined his mission, the one that sums them all up is: "I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly" (Jn 10:10). Read in the light of his post-resurrection commissioning of his disciples...

HE'S here to inspire and renew life in our parishes. Canadian lay leader Ron Huntley arrived in Brisbane last week to speak with priests and Church leaders about how to go beyond the crisis in the Catholic Church and inspire...