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WE have all seen movies where a character sits in an ornate confessional and quips with the priest on the other side of the grille, and while it is a great trope for films, the real sacrament does not really work like that. First things first, there are...
Read MoreON April 25, Catholics usually celebrate the feast of St Mark the Evangelist, whose attributed writings make up one of the four gospel accounts. However, this year it was moved to April 26. The Gospel of Mark is one of the synoptic Gospels, and provides...
Read MoreThis is Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge’s homily from Mass on Anzac Day WARFARE has changed dramatically in the span of time we remember on Anzac Day. Perhaps the greatest emblem of that change was the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima on...
Read MoreIT will be an Anzac Day like no other before. Only ten days before, 36 students from St Joseph's School in Stanthorpe, within Toowoomba Diocese, left for a first-time ever International Tour with six staff members and suitcases filled with Australian...
Read MoreBy Jo Hayes A SWELTERING summer afternoon in Brisbane, in the late 1990s. School has finished for the day. The school grounds are unusually silent. And I am sitting in a stifling hot classroom, sorting out my Latin declensions. I wasn't being punished...
Read MoreBROKEN Bay priest Fr Sam French, who has a large online following, revealed yesterday that he had been diagnosed with cancer and had undergone a successful surgery. The priest who is known for his comedic and informative videos, which have raked in millions...
Read MoreMONICA Molloy loves her neighbours. She can name just about every person in her street, the names of their children and a little tidbit about each of them. If pushed, she could probably name everyone in the Nundah-Banyo parish too. She loves to...
Read MorePOPE Francis has appealed to countries at war to release prisoners and offered special prayers for those who have endured torture. At the end of his weekly general audience , Pope Francis said that he knew “our thoughts, all of ours, go at this...
Read MoreBRISBANE priest Fr Marty Larsen was remembered by family, friends, students, parishioners and colleagues as a warm priest who had a "great sense of fun and a wonderful spirituality" at a Funeral Mass at St Stephen's Cathedral yesterday, April 18. Brisbane...
Read MoreIN a wooden chest of draws at home, I keep copies of The Catholic Leader. Over the last decade, I've accumulated deep piles of the newspaper that report and reflect on one of the most testing of times for the Church. Some could argue the last decade has...
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