ORATORY priest Fr Adrian Sharp said Brisbane’s Oratory community didn’t exist for itself, but was called to sanctify the laity. “I’m sure all priests and parishes (want that) but it might be less obvious in some ways, whereas it’s our whole reason for being,” Fr Sharp said. “We want the laity to be holy and (living the faith as) authentically ... Read More »
VANESSA Comninos is so fired up for evangelisation that she’s walked away from her dream job as an optometrist to work full-time in her Brisbane parish. The young wife and mother-of-two has taken on the role of evangelisation director in Our Lady of the Southern Cross Parish at Springfield, west of Brisbane, and she couldn’t be happier. Not only is ... Read More »
JESSICA Laidler’s life changed when she journeyed to the war-weary nation of Timor Leste on a school trip. At the time she was a teenager from the Gold Coast and remembers it as an eye-opening experience, not just to see a developing nation up-close but to be with the people and to engage with them. “And really from that, that’s ... Read More »
ON January 26, 1788 the British flag was erected on Australian soil. The First Fleet had reached its final destination. One year earlier, more than one thousand convicts, civil officers, crew members and marines had departed England, destined for a new land. It was the land Captain James Cook discovered a decade earlier. There was no flag, no monarchy, and ... Read More »
Brisbane photo journalist Alan Edgecomb was inspired by a recent visit to the Basilica of Santa Cecilia in Rome. This is the story of his visit in words and pictures. ST Cecilia lived in a small neighbourhood on the right bank of the Tiber River in Rome in the 3rd century. She was a noble Roman girl and a fervent ... Read More »
In May 2018, Father Francesco Mary Gavazzi was ordained a priest with the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal at St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. The ordination marked a 12-year journey for the Australian native that began in 2006 at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio. Fr Gavazzi spoke with The Catholic Leader from his new home at St Fidelis ... Read More »
By Dr Terrence Kent THE Parliament of Queensland has just debated and passed the Termination of Pregnancy Bill 2018 without amendment. Certainly, the first casualty of this whole process has been the truth. In my opinion, the production of this process has been a most flawed process. Originating in former independent MP Rob Pyne’s failed private Abortion Law Reform Bill ... Read More »
MANY years ago, Tim Staples took great pride in leading Christians away from the Catholic Church. Mr Staples, who was raised a Southern Baptist in the United States, saw the Catholic faith as an evil, non-Christian cult that taught a works-based doctrine, which contradicted his bible. It was the whore of Babylon in Revelation 17. Today, Mr Staples is the ... Read More »
PLANS to make Catholics legally obligated not only “not to harm” the environment but to improve it has “real merit”, Brisbane canon lawyer Fr Adrian Farrelly said. Fr Farrelly, a judicial vicar for the Queensland Regional Tribunal, said he agreed overall with a proposal from the former head of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts to insert a new canon in ... Read More »
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