QUEENSLAND authorities are bracing for a surge in COVID as Health Minister Yvette D'Ath reported 22 new local cases with 18 of them detected outside quarantine this morning. The cases were recorded in Brisbane, the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast, the...

LOOKING for some classic Christmas movies to watch with your family? Check out this curated list from the movie review team at Catholic News Service. You might need to check Santa's sleigh to find a few of them but many can be found online or at the back...

CENTACARE executive director Peter Selwood said each one of Centacare's staff honoured at their annual awards for 10, 20, 25, and 30 years of service was a "leader" in his eyes. "When you do a job and you do it well and you do it over time, people watch...

ST Jerome Church in Fancy Farm, Kentucky, became a makeshift shelter for storm survivors over the December 11-12 weekend and shifted the next day to become a distribution site for relief supplies. Four tornadoes, including one that carved a 350km-long...

A RETIRED priest, a tour guide, a volunteer at a homeless shelter and an office manager were commissioned as St Stephen's Cathedral guides and welcomers by Dean Fr Anthony Mellor at a Mass yesterday. The newly commissioned guides and welcomers were Britanny...

FAMILY and friends often come into focus at Christmas, as we give thanks for connections and blessings over the past year and beyond. It was with distant admiration that the name and person of Theresa Lauf (nee Drazek) came to mind as God's Holy Spirit...

CHRISTMAS church seating capacities were redrawn by the Queensland government in preparation for an expected wave of COVID-19 cases after the state border opened yesterday. St Stephen's Cathedral parish secretary Carmel Devery said she was concerned that...

YESTERDAY marked 52 years of priesthood for Pope Francis. He was ordained on December 13, 1969. He credits his lifelong faith to an event in the confessional when he was a teenager. He was almost 17 years old. It was the feast of St Matthew, September...

By Fr John Flader Can you tell me something about the name Christmas and also the meaning of names like Yule and Noel? Also, why there are three different Mass texts for Christmas? THE original Latin names for Christmas were Festum Nativitatis Domini...

A TORNADO gutted churches, tore down a water tower, flattened the courthouse, crushed the fire and police stations, reduced houses to rubble and killed up to 100 people last Friday in Mayfield, Kentucky. Wind speeds reached higher than 330km/h as the...