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French cardinal admits to abusing teenage girl 35 years ago
8 November 2022FRENCH Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, former head of the French bishops' conference, admitted to abusing a 14-year-old girl 35 years ago. The revelation came in a letter from Cardinal Ricard read by Archbishop Eric de Moulins-Beaufort of Reims, president... - Author: The Catholic LeaderEVERY year, for more than three decades, the Vatican tribunal dealing with matters of conscience has offered a course to help priests in their "ministry of mercy" as confessors. The huge number of participants, from 500 to 800 ordained and soon-to-be...
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Mater surgeons remove two kilogram tumour from newborn
7 November 2022BABY Saylor Thomas was born with a tumour on her spine twice as heavy as her body weight. She was delivered by a team of 25 surgeons, neonatologists, anaesthetists, theatre staff, nurses, and midwives. North Lakes parents Rachel and Kieran Thomson's "miracle... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Brisbane Catholic couple grateful to witness St Giovanni Battista Scalabrini's canonisation
7 November 2022BRISBANE'S Carmela and Leo Bozzi described the opportunity to be in St Peter's Square, Rome, for the canonisation of Saints Giovanni Battista (John Baptist) Scalabrini, and Artemide Zatti on October 9 as a "gift". "We welcomed with joy the news that our... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Catholic couple find a way with love and music
7 November 2022ACCOMPLISHED Catholic musicians Emma Fradd and David Kruse have a unique story to tell - it's about long distance falling in love and creating a Catholic recording label, the first of its kind in Australia. In October 2020, when international borders... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Young Catholics invited to join Brisbane archdiocese's pilgrimage group to Lisbon for World Youth Day 2023
5 November 2022STEPH Rogers can still remember the overwhelming feeling of two million young people praying together in silence in a huge field on her first World Youth Day in Krakow, Poland, in 2016. Pope Francis had been leading prayer and asked the crowd for a minute... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Hundreds walking for Helena's dream to bring housing opportunities for young adults with disabilities
5 November 2022HELENA'S House Co-founder Fiona McIlwain said she felt blessed to see her daughter Helena's dream of building a house for people with disabilities get one step closer thanks to a groundswell of community support for an upcoming fundraising walk next weekend... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Can music answer our theological questions?
4 November 2022WHO is going to heaven? Is celibacy ever a good idea? Is Scripture a world for women? Theologian and musician Dr Maeve Heaney posed these questions in her latest book - Suspended God: Music and a Theology of Doubt. "The best definition of theology is... - Author: The Catholic Leader
ACU mentor program supports student teachers
4 November 2022Recent media attention has highlighted how an increasing number of teachers are quitting their profession feeling burnt out and demoralised. Now, Australian Catholic University research has shown that student teachers taking part in a comprehensive mentoring... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Solving the mystery of what happened to Toowoomba's first priest
3 November 2022By Adrian Gibb and Patrick O'Neill AMONG the historical mysteries encountered by new Brisbane archdiocese archivists Adrian Gibb and Patrick O'Neill were the stories of several French and Italian priests who disappeared after a brief sojourn in Queensland...