MARKING press freedom journalists from across East Timor have flocked to the town of Balibo to commemorate the death of...

HIGH in the mountains of Timor Leste a monastery is taking shape with support from missionary volunteers and donations from...

QUEENSLAND is preparing for a long hot fire season, and one church leader says conditions are already tinder dry in...

WITH about 132,000 Queenslanders unemployed, St Vincent de Paul’s state chief executive officer Kevin Mercer has welcomed a new report...

CYCLISTS in Sunday's Brisbane to Gold Coast charity ride raised more than $565,000 (and counting) with proceeds going towards cancer...

A DRUG overdose claims an Australian life every four hours according to a new report, coinciding with a call by...

PARISHIONERS from across Brisbane Archdiocese are being encouraged to respond to the call of Laudato Si’ by taking part in...

THE Jesuits are returning to Brisbane as part of a new "community of communities” approach to ministry. From the start...

MORE than 4000 teachers and support staff at 106 Queensland CAtholic schools will strike for an hour on Wednesday, August...

AS many as 2000 employees at dozens of Queensland Catholic schools are taking strike action today (August 15) after talks...

A CENTACARE family support expert says a dire lack of safe and available housing for women and children exposed to...

LONELINESS can affect us all, and at any time. Right now, it could be a friend, neighbour, parent, partner, child,...

THE theme for this year’s Homelessness Week is “It’s time to End Homelessness” – yet it seems in Australia, the...

A NEW nationwide report shows that loneliness is pervasive in Australia, particularly amongst young adults. Six million Australians - almost...

THE parish priest who visits Russell Island near Brisbane has called for prayers and support for the tight-knit island community...

YOUNG Australians are among the huge throng of Catholic pilgrims filling the Portuguese capital Lisbon as World Youth Day gets...

CARING members of two Brisbane parishes have raised more than $14,000 to aid a fellow churchgoer - a Tamil refugee...

DARWIN Bishop Charles Gauci is preparing to publicly champion the “value of Christian life” after the Northern Territory government this...

THE Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has welcomed Pope Francis’ invitation to churches from around the world to attend...

IT is a long road trip from Brisbane to Cherbourg to visit the community’s Ration Shed museum, but it is...

CHALDEAN Catholics in Australia will fast and pray this Friday for the protection of their Church’s leader, Patriarch Cardinal Louis...

BRISBANE elder Uncle Joe Kirk has told The Catholic Leader he believes the Voice to parliament referendum vote will be...

AS Peter Doherty prepares to be ordained a deacon for the Diocese of Rockhampton this week, he fondly recounts growing up in rural...

BISHOP Ken Howell was today installed as the Seventh Bishop of Toowoomba, inside a full St Patrick’s Cathedral in the...

Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge has presided over a memorial Mass remembering ordinations at St Stephen’s Cathedral over the last 150...