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- Author: The Catholic LeaderDOZENS of young Catholic school students are lining up on the lawns of St Stephen's Cathedral for the annual Shrove Tuesday pancake races. A pancake race is a team medley. While running down a stretch of 10 metres or so, the students have to continuously...
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Prayer can change people's hearts, Pope says at canonisation Mass
13 February 2024ST Maria Antonia de Paz Figueroa, known as Mama Antula, devoted herself completely to helping others experience God's closeness and compassion, Pope Francis said after he declared the 18th-century consecrated laywoman a saint. By letting her heart and... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Here are ten ways to renew your life in Jesus Christ throughout Lent
13 February 2024LENT is a time of conversion and penance that the Catholic Church offers to believers to prepare for and live the Easter triduum -- the mystery of the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus. During the 40 days (this year February 14 - March 28), Catholics... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Visit the sick and suffering to tangibly share God's love, pope says
12 February 2024POPE Francis urged people to bring God's love to the sick and suffering through "concrete actions" in his Angelus address on the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. Speaking on a rainy Sunday in Rome from the window of the Apostolic Palace to the crowd huddled... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Maleny's country church toasts to 100 years
12 February 2024MALENY's country church was nothing but a "dry paddock" before the land was given to the local parish in 1924 - and 100 years on, that dry paddock has come to nourish thousands of people. Parishioners past and present flocked from all over south-east... - Author: The Catholic LeaderCARRYING a stretcher through a channel of mud and water can teach you a lot about your faith, Toowoomba priest Fr Nathan Webb says. He was chaplain to a group of 20 young Catholics who came together for a weekend of faith and fellowship from across Toowoomba...
- Author: The Catholic LeaderPROFILES for 1230 parishes from across the country have been published by the Australian bishops' Centre for Pastoral Research. The report comes from data in the 2021 Census and sheds light on Catholic and local populations within parish boundaries. Rockhampton...
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St Josephine Bakhita's feast day - a day of prayer and awareness against human trafficking
8 February 2024TODAY the Church commemorates the life of St. Josephine Bakhita, a Canossian Sister who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Sudan. Josephine Bakhita was born in 1869, in a small village in the Darfur region of Sudan. She was kidnapped while working... - Author: The Catholic LeaderFOUR new seminarians - Kalepo Misi, Edward Mbonu, Penitito Sagato and Antony Sebastian - were welcomed to Holy Spirit Provincial Seminary at the commissioning Mass at Holy Spirit Chapel, Banyo, on Sunday. The chapel was packed with friends and family...
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Church in Sri Lanka to begin canonisation process for hundreds killed in 2019 Easter attack
6 February 2024THE Archdiocese of Colombo, Sri Lanka, is set to begin the canonisation process for the hundreds of faithful killed in the 2019 Easter Sunday terrorist attack in the country, an archdiocesan official confirmed with CNA. Fr Joy Indika Perera, a representative...