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WEBThe Catholic Leader is an Australian award-winning Catholic newspaper that has been published by the Archdiocese of Brisbane since 1929. Our journalism seeks to provide a full, accurate and balanced Catholic perspective of local, national and international news while upholding the dignity of the human person.
Sisters are simply living the Josephite life
WEBMar 18, 2016 · Today, there are 835 sisters in the Josephite order. However, in the past two years only six women attended final professions, and two took their first professions. “In the 1950s when we had 40 or 50 sisters attending final professions each year,” the order’s congregational leader Sr Monica Cavanagh said. “There are a smaller group of ...
The Catholic Guy’s dream
WEBMay 15, 2011 · “You may have to risk everything to fight for your Promised Land,” the man who has come to be known as ‘The Catholic Guy’ told the gathering which included students from Padua College, Kedron, just back from a MenALIVE Extreme Year 12 leadership camp.
Dedicated priest, historian dies - The Catholic Leader
WEBDec 19, 2010 · Dedicated priest, historian dies. TRIBUTES continue to pour in for the late Fr Tom Boland, Brisbane’s esteemed priest historian – a trailblazer who helped the archdiocese’s Catholics form their own unique sense of identity. Fr Boland achieved this through his meticulously researched books and papers on the archdiocese’s history, most ...
To whom can we pray? - The Catholic Leader
WEBAug 4, 2014 · It is understood that Mary prays for us to the Father through Jesus, and so the Church gives us the traditional expression “to Jesus through Mary”. And we can also pray to the angels and the saints. Among the most popular prayers to the angels are the prayer to the guardian angel and the prayer to St Michael, the archangel.
Smorgasbord of homilies - The Catholic Leader
WEBMar 9, 2008 · Smorgasbord of homilies. Preaching to the converted: on Sundays and feast days throughout the year. Richard Leonard SJ, Paulist Press, $45. Reviewed by Br Brian Grenier CFC. THE Australian Jesuit Father Richard Leonard is well known to Leader readers for his insightful film reviews. In his latest book, Preaching to …
'The walking nuns' go out in God's love - The Catholic Leader
WEBJun 11, 2014 · The sisters, we have heard, were known as “the walking nuns” because they would not be cloistered. They would go out where the people were. Yet once these women said “yes” to the call to come to the end of the earth the walking nuns became the sailing nuns in ways they scarcely could have imagined when they volunteered.
Hobart archbishop’s defence moves same-sex marriage advocate
WEBNov 17, 2015 · The Archbishop of Hobart last week received notification that a complaint raised by Federal Greens candidate and same-sex marriage supporter Martine Delaney posing a pastoral letter ‘Don’t Mess with Marriage’ sent to Catholic schools in Tasmania had been viewed as a possible breach on the state’s anti-discrimination laws.
A great Australian story - The Catholic Leader
WEBSep 21, 2014 · Caritas Australia started in the early 1960s among lay Catholics who wanted to make a difference on issues of social justice. To tackle the issues of hunger and poverty, they created the Catholic Overseas Relief Committee in 1964. The same year parishes collected money to assist a Diocesan Priest working in …
Archbishop Coleridge’s podcasts explore St Paul’s story as one of ...
WEBJul 25, 2020 · ARCHBISHOP Mark Coleridge suggests St Paul, “among the most influential figures in the whole of human history”, is important for us as we “grapple with the great questions” of our time. The Archbishop of Brisbane, a Scripture scholar, made the comment in the first episode of a new podcast series broadcast by the archdiocese on […]