The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

THERE almost aren't enough hours in Lent for Brisbane couple Brendan and Judy Wong.

AFTER her first exposure to the crowded chaos of early 1990s Bangladesh, Marist Missionary (SMSM) Sister Julienne Hayes-Smith nearly didn't return.

MOLLY Sutton's daughter Barbara was only 12 when she joined her mother making Rosary beads at Nambour, north of Brisbane, to send to overseas missions.

EACH time Fr James Grant puts on his Capuchin habit, the great sense of honour he experienced when first clothed in St Francis' garment is still with him.

ALL Pam Betts ever wanted to be was a teacher.

FATHER Werenfried van Straaten, the founder of the international Catholic pastoral charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), would have been happy to have celebrated his 100th birthday.

HEATHER Barrett was struggling to deal with her 24-year-old son's unexpected death just five years after her husband's death.

IN his late teens Janusz Blach wanted to be a priest but that wasn't to be.

IF the Higgins family had been around in the time of Jesus' birth, Mary and Joseph would have been invited into their home and offered every hospitality.