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- Author: The Catholic LeaderTHE Queensland Catholic Schools and Colleges Music Festival is making a highly anticipated comeback to Villanova College in Coorparoo from this weekend. More than 9,000 music students hailing from more than 100 schools and colleges across Queensland,...
- Author: The Catholic LeaderBISHOP Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, this week argued that events such as the recently concluded World Youth Day are not only relevant to the Catholic Church but also essential to counteract what he said has been the practice of "dumbing...
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Listening, learning, loving key to engaging with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, 2023 social justice statement says
17 August 2023AUSTRALIAN Church leaders are calling for new engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples based on listening, learning and loving. The call is outlined in this year's 24-page annual social justice statement produced by the Australian... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Reflecting on the surprise and joy of World Youth Day
15 August 2023MARY could have thought twice about making such a journey, but she did not - she went in haste to visit her cousin (Elizabeth), aware that God was bringing immense surprises and joy into their lives. In the same way hundreds of young people from the Neocatechumenal... - Author: The Catholic LeaderBRISBANE Archbishop Mark Coleridge said the dogma of the Assumption proclaimed by Pope Pius XII showed God's true plan for the human being. "This was something that Christians had long believed - that the Mother of Christ who was untouched by sin could...
- Author: The Catholic LeaderAS many as 2000 employees at Queensland Catholic school in dozens of schools are taking strike action today (August 15) after talks stalled on enterprise bargaining. Independent Education Union members were due to stop work for five-minutes from 8:30-8:35am...
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The fascinating history of the feast of Mary's Assumption
15 August 2023Today (August 15) Catholics around the world mark the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, commemorating the end of her earthly life and assumption into Heaven. But while the feast day is a relatively new one, the history of the holiday - and the mystery... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Australian bishops visit war-torn Ukraine
14 August 2023A DELEGATION of Australian Catholic bishops has spent four days in Ukraine in an expression of pastoral solidarity. Last week, Archbishop Peter A Comensoli of Melbourne, Archbishop Julian Porteous of Hobart, Bishop Karol Kulczycki SDS of Port Pirie, Fr... - Author: The Catholic LeaderST Maximilian Kolbe, the Polish Franciscan priest, missionary and martyr, is celebrated throughout the Church today. The saint died in the concentration camp at Auschwitz, during the Second World War, and is remembered as a "martyr of charity" for dying...
- Author: The Catholic LeaderBRISBANE Archbishop Mark Coleridge has proposed that celibacy be waived for Indigenous priests to bring more First Nations Australians into the fold. Archbishop Coleridge put forward his ideas on the issue of married Indigenous men being granted pathways...