PROPOSED changes to the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Act would be a "betrayal of all faith communities" in the state, an open letter from Queensland Churches Together warns. Current Queensland law allows religious schools and organisations to make employment...

A MIX of mums, dads, lots of little children, university students, young adults, fellow religious and clergy filled up Holy Spirit Chapel to pray and listen to four visiting Sisters of Life at Australian Catholic University, Banyo, last Monday. Among...

AUSTRALIA'S Critical Care Research Group has announced a new partnership with Rome's Bambino Gesu Women's and Children's Hospital and Cairo's Human Fraternity Foundation to help support mothers, babies and pregnant women in Egypt . The partnership will...

MAY will always be a special month, the month that the Church dedicates to the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of God and our mother. The month is just the right time to renew the love that all of us who are baptised ought to profess for the woman whom God...

ON May 1, Catholics celebrate the feast day of St Joseph the Worker. A spiritual mentor of mine, St Joseph's work shares the same message my own mentors have taught me time and time again. Something Christians are called to live out, though sometimes...

AT the same time the Church was preparing to release a declaration on the horror of euthanasia, the Queensland premier was giving an award for excellence to the team that helped introduce voluntary assisted dying into the state. The Church declaration...

A FOUNDATION that promotes devotion to St Pius of Pietrelcina, more widely known as Padre Pio, is making 10 never-before-seen photographs of the saint available to the devout for free. The images provide personal insight into the life, attitude and spirituality...

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...

ON 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...

This 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...