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- Author: The Catholic LeaderCHRISTINE Rich finds music and faith beautifully bound up together. The 80-year-old former teacher has spent most of her life enthralled by the pleasure of music - and has just celebrated 50 years as the organist at St Ita's Church in Brisbane's Dutton...
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Do you seriously think God can't use you?
2 April 2022By Terry Lees DID you know that the oldest Nobel Laureate Prize winner was Leonid Hurwicz at the age of 90? Or that Dorothy Davenhill Hirsch broke a record when she visited the North Pole at the age of 89? Every day, seniors are challenging the notion... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Multicultural communities at home on the Gold Coast
1 April 2022CATHY Wu feels like she is part of one big Catholic family at Burleigh Heads parish. For Ms Wu, a member of the parish's Chinese Pastoral Group, she cherished the chance to celebrate her first parish Lunar New Year Mass with her community and parishioners... - Author: The Catholic LeaderCATHOLIC peak bodies have reacted to federal treasurer Josh Frydenberg's 2022-23 budget - here are the winners and losers for the Church. Catholic Health Australia was concerned about the lack of palliative care funding, especially as the country's aging...
- Author: The Catholic LeaderAFTER two years without perpetual adoration because of the pandemic, Brisbane Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Committee member Roy Pires said he was blown away by the number of adorers signing up across the city in the last two months. It had grown so...
- Author: The Catholic LeaderMISSIONARIES of the Poor vocations are booming and their supporters here in Brisbane see why. Kay Corcoran, who has been on two trips with the missionaries in Flores, Indonesia, and to the mother house of the order in Jamaica, said she felt grace the...
- Author: The Catholic LeaderA BIG boost in funding to suicide prevention service Lifeline "will save lives" according to the organisation, as Australia battles to address rapidly growing mental health needs. Suicide is the biggest single cause of death amongst Australian men under...
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The warm glow of Belfast overshadowed by Oscar slap
30 March 2022Regrettably, Will Smith's now-infamous slap dominated the headlines after this year Oscar's ceremony, and overshadowed some noteworthy winners. Spare a thought for writer-director Kenneth Branagh's little autobiographical masterpiece, Belfast. It was... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Sir Peter Cosgrove talks information age Church, Ukraine and head of state with Catholic professionals
29 March 2022THE Church in Australia has to face the realities of the information age if it wants to see more young people join, General Sir Peter Cosgrove said in a question and answer with Brisbane' Assembly of Catholic Professionals last Thursday. He said every... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Pope calls for an end to senseless war in Ukraine
29 March 2022POPE Francis has renewed his call for an end to the war in Ukraine and strongly denounced the conflict as a barbaric act used by those in power at the cost of innocent lives. "We need to reject war, a place of death where fathers and mothers bury their...