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Q&A - Did Christ found the Church?
23 February 2024Fr John Flader Question - Some Protestants believe that Christ did not found a visible, hierarchical Church, but that he only preached the Kingdom of God, and it was the early Christians in different places who gradually formed themselves into communities... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Fr Ian Wren remembered as a gentle and caring man who dedicated his life to pastoral ministry
22 February 2024BRISBANE priest Fr Ian Wren has died after a long illness and will be remembered at a Funeral Mass tomorrow at St Stephen's Cathedral. Fr Wren died at the Wesley Hospital on Monday, February 12. He was born on January 20, 1942, in Brisbane to Andrew and... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Lives of the saints - St Peter Damian
21 February 2024ST Peter Damian was a champion of the renewal of the Church in the 11th Century. It was a time when simony was rife, clerical abuses were widespread and morality among the laity was wayward. Through his writings and his sermons, St Peter Damian helped... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Meekness is our strength as Christians, Lent is a time to embrace it
21 February 2024By Michael Howard JESUS' call to meekness is a challenge of strength. Our world can be obnoxious and aggressive, meekness is rarely held out to be a virtue. The meek are seen as being soft or submissive, out of step with modernity's plea for us to be... - Author: The Catholic LeaderSEEING each person who was soon to be received into the Church at Easter, hearing their name called out and getting words of support from their friends and family - that was what organisers loved about the Rite of Election. This year marked the biggest...
- Author: The Catholic LeaderSYDNEY theologians Dr Kevin Wagner and Dr Peter McGregor are eager to share the ideas of 20 contributors who have been pondering the theology of the Holy Spirit in their new book - Pneumatology at the Beginning of the Third Millennium. Dr McGregor, who...
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11 quotes from the saints on love and relationships
16 February 2024IN a culture where the family is attacked and love is often confused with lust, it can be hard to know what Godly love looks like in our relationships -- whether that be in dating, in marriage, or within our home. Here are 11 quotes from the saints on... - Author: The Catholic LeaderIN an age when even one's most intimate thoughts and feelings can become fodder for social media, Lent is a time to cast aside appearances and to find God at work in the depths of the heart, Pope Francis said. Without realising it, Christians have become...
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Ash Wednesday Masses bring large numbers to St Stephen's Cathedral
14 February 2024LENT is not a time of gloom and pessimism, but a "joyful and glorious opportunity", Brisbane priest Fr Tom Elich said at the 8am Ash Wednesday Mass at St Stephen's Cathedral. He said Lent was a time "that God offers us for conversion, for a change of... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Vinnies leader says new homelessness report is another wake-up call on housing crisis
14 February 2024THE Federal Government's newly-released report on people accessing specialist homelessness services paints a deeply disturbing picture of the nation's housing crisis, the leading church assistance ministry says. The Australian Institute for Health and...