The Inquiry into aged care, end-of-life and palliative care and voluntary assisted dying by the Queensland government was an opportunity for us to consider the kind of society we want to be. As Gandhi once said, “the true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members”. Those in aged care and end of ... Read More »
This is an Easter message from Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge. IN many ways the world and the church are passing through dark times, and the question is how to make sense of the darkness. We aren’t the first to face that question. It lies at the heart of the Bible which is a grand and complex answer to ... Read More »
IT is a difficult task to change people’s attitude or mind-set, as anyone engaged in education will readily tell you. To change whole personalities, to turn around life’s patterns, needs a miracle. Twelve men, unlettered in the main, yet skilled in the practical aspects of the fishermen trade, once followed Christ for diverse reasons. Some dreamt of an earthly ... Read More »
FORMER St Vincent de Paul Society Queensland state president Brian Moore, who regularly wrote a column for The Catholic Leader, has died from a long-term illness. A Vinnies member for more than 50 years, Mr Moore held various roles as a Vincentian, including state president, senior vice president of the society’s state council, diocesan president Toowoomba and regional president in ... Read More »
CATHOLICS across the world were united in sorrow and prayer after a devastating fire engulfed the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris causing major damage. Images broadcast around the world showed the French cathedral in flames before collapsing shortly before 8pm local time. Officials now say that they the main bell towers and historic front of the building have been saved. ... Read More »
EL Salvadorian-born Ana Hatherley remembers the excitement of boarding an airplane for the first time, bound for Australia. It was 1988, she was six years old, the eldest of three children. Young Ana and her family were fleeing their civil-war-torn country. Somehow it seemed like a great adventure. And it turned out to be the start of a faith-inspired life ... Read More »
WHEN a former Governor General was baptised at the age of 85 last year – a man who had previously been an avowed atheist – I was interested to hear not only what had drawn him to the Church, but also what had driven him away from her in the first place. He mentioned in an interview that he had ... Read More »
ALL over Australia, people are again discussing the morality of ending one’s own life. While there still seems to be a strong taboo around suicide, many people seem to think that under certain circumstances – for example, in the final stages of a terminal and incurable disease – you ought to be legally permitted to actively end your life, and ... Read More »
WHEN Alejandro Quijada Ode emigrated to Brisbane in 2016 the inflation rate in his home country of Venezuela was 800 per cent. Today it is estimated to be as high as 10 million per cent. A 2019 United Nations report estimated 3.4 million Venezuelans had left their country. Ninety-four per cent of those who remained were living in poverty, the ... Read More »
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