FIVE Brisbane Catholics, who have served the archdiocese for a combined total of 180 years, are surprised to be receiving papal honours for their efforts. Lloyd Eikenloff, Mary Coman, Kevin Ross, Margaret Vider and Paul Gallagher yesterday received papal honours in recognition of their professional and volunteer work in the Brisbane archdiocese. All recipients were to receive their awards at ... Read More »
Archbishop Amel Nona was Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul in Iraq for more than four years before he and thousands of other Christians were forced by Islamic State militants to flee in mid-2014. He writes now as Archbishop of the St Thomas Chaldean diocese of Australia and New Zealand. VIOLENCE, terrorist attacks and killing of innocent people, are daily seen and ... Read More »
TOOWOOMBA singer-songwriter Josh Arnold has won the diocese’s 2016 Social Justice Award. At the recent award presentation, the diocese’s Social Justice Commission executive officer Dr Mark Copland paid tribute to Mr Arnold for his work with the Walk Together Project. “The Walk Together Toowoomba Project, which was the brainchild of musician and community builder Josh Arnold, is something the whole ... Read More »
DOMESTIC violence services are bracing for a high number of calls for support this Christmas holiday break. It follows a year in which there was a surge in women reporting domestic violence and calling on support services; media saturation coverage of violent deaths; and a government and corporate push to reduce the domestic violence scourge. “This year has seen ... Read More »
A CONTROVERSIAL bill to legalise euthanasia will be introduced into Victorian Parliament in the second half of next year, despite doctors’ warnings that expanded palliative care would deliver better results. Premier Daniel Andrews was previously against euthanasia, but is now keen to support it after watching his father suffer through a long battle with cancer. “That gives you reason to ... Read More »
UNIVERSITY student Michelle Jory is itching to show the world that the Catholic Church is alive when the Year of Youth kicks off in Australia next year. The Brisbane nursing student is one of thousands of young Catholics and youth ministry leaders preparing for the special national liturgical year initiated by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC). The Year of ... Read More »
BRISBANE priest Fr Paul Kelly is relieved the Queensland Government has introduced a bill to abolish the controversial “gay panic” defence. Fr Kelly (pictured) has spent years campaigning to change the law, after a man was bashed and died in the grounds of the St Mary’s Church in Maryborough church where he was serving as parish priest in 2008. Disgusted ... Read More »
TEENAGERS living in Australia have been identified as the country’s most generous generation when it comes to volunteering. A global interview of more than 22,000 online users over the age of 15 in 17 countries showed the frequency of volunteer or charity work among consumers aged 15 and over. According to the survey by GfK, Australians aged between 15 and ... Read More »
IN the highlands of Papua New Guinea, some tribesmen and their families walked for a week to attend a Mass marking the end of the Year of Mercy. They were some of the 5000-strong congregation to pack Mt Hagen’s new cathedral – the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity – even though the building is not yet completed. Mt Hagen Archbishop ... Read More »
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