The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

"I USED to play football in a club in Nigeria.

WHETHER it's with pushbikes for transport or laptops for communication, Brisbane teacher Stephen Jorgensen is determined to help refugees and asylum seekers in any way he can.

PETER Gasparin said he'd "be dead without music".

ALMOST every day at 6pm, the sounds of the organ resonate in the brick Catholic church on Kavaja Street, in Tirana, Albania.

WHEN her fledgling pharmacy career brought a young Bernadette Teasey to "a small fishing village" in south-east Queensland in 1948 little did she know she'd still be there about 65 years later.

ROWENA McNally was moving on from a successful career as a lawyer including a term as Queensland Sugar Industry Commissioner when she asked God in prayer if He had any work for her.

Numbers at Southport Catholic parish are on the increase with 18 adults welcomed into the community via the RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults) program over Easter.

BOWEN local Colin Lowcock was in Brisbane recently to attend a Mass to celebrate the 50th year of formation of Catholic Religious Australia, Queensland (CRAqld).

PRAYING outside a Bowen Hills abortion clinic in pre-dawn darkness for those who use or work at the facility, Brisbane priest Fr Michael Grace often has a hopeful vision.