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Link between porn and partner violence growing
14 May 2022"HE went for my neck without even asking." It was a phrase Collective Shout co-founder Melinda Tankard-Reist had heard from young women she met through her anti-pornography advocacy work. Choking was one of the more popular genres of pornography, she... - Author: The Catholic LeaderWHEN the faithful of Stanthorpe parish, in Toowoomba diocese, gathered to honour God through their expression of devotion to the three Italian brotherly saints - Alfio, Filadelfo and Cirino - on the first Sunday in May, there were many tangible moments...
- Author: The Catholic LeaderMARK Wahlberg, the Catholic star of the new movie Father Stu, has been hitting the interview trail to support the film. He's got skin in the game, as he's one of the movie's producers, financing Father Stu largely with his own money. Not that it was his...
- Author: The Catholic LeaderAFTER a long pandemic pause, Pope Francis is scheduled to celebrate a Mass for the canonisation of 10 men and women - five from Italy, three from France, one from India and one from the Netherlands on May 15. The "big names" - globally - in the newly...
- Author: The Catholic LeaderST Stephen's Cathedral would be without its pipe organ for up to four months after suffering water damage in the heavy rains in February. Cathedral music director Christopher Trikilis said rainwater had entered the cathedral and run through the organ...
- Author: The Catholic LeaderHONG Kong's national security police released Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, retired archbishop of Hong Kong, after detaining him for allegedly colluding with foreign forces on May 11. The cardinal, 90, has been a very public supporter of pro-democracy...
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25-year-old record broken by SJFC star swimmer
11 May 2022A RECORD held in the pool for a quarter of a century has been broken by a St John Fisher College student, who went on to bag five medals at the recent Queensland Schools Swimming Championships. Principal Catherine Galvin said Year 9 student, Olivia Watson,... - Author: The Catholic LeaderA BRISBANE singer has written a remarkable opera about a little-known chapter of our military past - when the first Australian Army nurses were sent to the war in Vietnam. Elizabeth Lewis wrote The Nurses at Vung Tau to premiere in Brisbane on June 23,...
- Author: The Catholic LeaderQUEENSLAND is to make coercive control a criminal offence by the end of 2023 and examine how police respond to domestic violence. A four-month commission of inquiry into how police handle DV cases will start on May 30. The families of victims like Hannah...
- Author: The Catholic LeaderBRISBANE priest Fr Patrick Cassidy was remembered as a prayerful and family-oriented priest by friends and family at a funeral Mass at Our Lady Help of Christians, Nanango on May 2. Retired priest Fr Frank O'Dea said he first met Fr Cassidy in 1961 when...