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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... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Vinnies calls for urgent help for struggling Australians
3 November 2022THE St Vincent de Paul Society has called on the Labor Government to provide urgent help to the growing number of Australians struggling to survive amid surging inflation and interest rates. Vinnies' national president Claire Victory said Tuesday's decision... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Our Lady of Aparecida shrine opens in Burleigh Heads parish
2 November 2022OUR Lady of Aparecida has finished her long journey across the Pacific to find a home with Brazilian Catholics on the Gold Coast in a newly-opened shrine at Calvary Church in Miami. Burleigh Heads priest Fr Jack Ho blessed and dedicated the shrine at... - Author: The Catholic Leader
Chaplains stay to help Myanmar refugees over decades
2 November 2022SOME 90,000 Myanmarese refugees live in nine camps on the Thai side of the border. At the height of displacement in the early 1990s, the camps held more than 130,000 refugees. People already in the camps have watched humanitarian groups come and go over... - Author: The Catholic LeaderEVANGELISATION Brisbane's new Going Deeper podcast is all about getting to the heart of what it means to be Catholic, producer David Kruse said. "Beneath what we do and what we say (as Catholics), and beneath all the tenets of the Catholic faith... at...
- Author: The Catholic LeaderBRAZIL has taken a turn to the left as former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva beat far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in the presidential election. A divisive campaign saw two bitter rivals on opposite sides of the political spectrum go head to head,...
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Catholic Mission kicks goals for Socktober
31 October 2022THE Catholic Mission Brisbane team celebrated Socktober in style with a sausage sizzle and a soccer shootout last Friday. The annual event raised awareness and funds for children in poverty through soccer games. "This is a really wonderful event that... - Author: The Catholic LeaderWITH a renewed membership, the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors met at the Vatican in late October and laid the groundwork for devising an annual report on child protection efforts by the Catholic Church globally. Oblate Father Andrew...