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- Author: The Catholic LeaderPARENTS of 12, Paul and Fiona Webb have many reasons to be up in the middle of the night, but watching their daughter make her first religious vows has to be among the most precious. The Catholic couple and nine of their dozen children crowded around...
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Missionary priests brace for fallout after Taliban makes gains as US military leaves Afghanistan
22 July 2021INDIAN Jesuits in Afghanistan are not sure what is in store for them as the strife-torn nation slips into conflict as the United States winds down operations after almost 20 years of war. "We will continue to accompany and give hope to the suffering people... - Author: The Catholic LeaderFATHER Stephen Hilgendorf was ready to give up ministry altogether if it meant he could be in full communion with the Catholic Church. It had been a long road from his role as a priest in the Anglican tradition but God found a way for him to remain a...
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Celebrating the role of our grandparents and elderly
21 July 2021This Sunday is the inaugural World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly and Catholic ministries are being encouraged to find creative ways to celebrate. Pope Francis announced earlier this year that the day will be marked each year around the feast of... - Author: The Catholic LeaderGERARD Lai will hopefully be a priest by 2023 and the sheer thought begs the question - how well does he know other future priests around Australia? The answer is, frankly, not well at all. Mr Lai said while he knew his fellow Queensland seminarians,...
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Nurses speak out against voluntary assisted dying
20 July 2021A QUEENSLAND nurses association with 8,00 members says legalising euthanasia would transform nursing from "saving lives and doing no harm to taking lives". Queensland parliament is expected to debate and vote on a Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill in September... - Author: The Catholic LeaderAUSTRALIAN Catholic University president Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge welcomed the newly-named Chancellor, Justice Martin Daubney, and Pro-Chancellor, Virginia Bourke, to their new positions in an email today. Archbishop Coleridge said both Justice...
- Author: The Catholic LeaderA MARCH for Life in Brisbane on August 28 aims to rally public opposition against euthanasia just days before Queensland's parliament starts debating a Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill. Cherish Life is organising the event as a final push to persuade Queensland...
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Germany's floods reap havoc, claim a heavy toll
19 July 2021EMERGENCY response and aid efforts were running in high gear after severe flooding in Germany and neighbouring countries toppled buildings, washed away vehicles and left a rising death toll. At least 157 deaths in Germany alone in recent days marked the... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Archbishop Coleridge urges legal professionals to build their judgments on rock of justice
19 July 2021QUEENSLAND Governor Paul de Jersey, Queensland Supreme Court chief justice Catherine Holmes and many of the state's brightest legal minds filed into St Stephen's Cathedral to begin the legal year with a blessing in an ecumenical liturgy led by Brisbane...