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- Author: The Catholic LeaderYOUNG Catholic songwriters in Brisbane have blended sweet new melodies with ancient psalms to produce an album that just might shoot to the top of your driving playlist or prove popular at home or at prayer. The Psalms Project is the work of Church agency...
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Chinese bishop who braved Cultural Revolution dies at 99
19 October 2021A retired Chinese bishop, persecuted and forced to spend years in labour camps during the Cultural Revolution, and who later stood up to China's state-sanctioned church body, has died at 99. Retired Bishop Stephen Yang Xiangtai of Handan, died of complications... - Author: The Catholic Leader
All to Jesus through Mary, all to Mary for Jesus
19 October 2021By Terry Lees I have a confession to make. During that extended part of my life, I refer to as my prodigal years - in which I turned my back on God - when I was spiritually blind and did not consciously engage in prayer, there was one practice to which... - Author: The Catholic LeaderLast year in Queensland 70 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children(aged between five and 17) took their own lives. The tragic figure is higher than in any other state and reinforces a grim reality that across Australia youth suicide is the number...
- Author: The Catholic LeaderTHE remarkable life of Wakka Wakka elder and educator Uncle Bevan Costello, a champion for positive change in Cherbourg community, was celebrated at a funeral Mass last week. Hundreds of mourners from across Queensland, including Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk...
- Author: The Catholic LeaderWHEN the Knights of the Southern Cross formed in Queensland a century ago - in October 1921 - the prospects for a Catholic working man were very different. A scan of the Courier Mail from a century ago shows that job advertisements regularly appeared...
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Richard Barker's walking by faith for those who can't see
15 October 2021GUARDIAN angels have a way of gently steering their assigned soul towards the greater good - just ask one of Queensland's most successful business leaders, Richard Barker. The former Queensland Rugby Union chief executive officer and leading radio executive... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Granddaughter of British Great War medic returns Catholic vestments to Church archives in Brisbane
14 October 2021IT had been a long road home for three damaged, gold-threaded vestments picked up by a British medical assistant attached to the 11th Hussar Regiment in a Catholic church somewhere in Flanders in 1914-15. The three Catholic vestments had been sitting... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Lights, action, camera: filming underway on 'The Midnight Sower'
13 October 2021'WHERE is God in my life?' is the key question posed by a modern-day short film adaption of The Sower Parable, being produced in Brisbane. Shooting got underway at Guardian Angels Church in Wynnum, after young Catholic filmmaker, Dainel Urbina, raised... - Author: The Catholic LeaderBLESSED Carlo Acutis, the teenage computer wiz who built website tools to spread Eucharistic devotion, celebrated his first feast day since his beatification on October 12. Thousands of pilgrims flocked to his tomb to celebrate with him in the days leading...