The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

LORETO, Italy (CNS): During a visit to the Shrine of Our Lady of Loreto, Pope Benedict XVI formally entrusted to Mary the world Synod of Bishops and the Year of Faith.

MORE than 550 people attended the first of a series of prayer evenings being led by Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane, with many expressing their appreciation of the experience.

"I'M waking up earlier in Brisbane," Archbishop Mark Coleridge told hundreds of young people during his keynote address at the Sept-ember 27-30 Ignite Youth Conference - "Awaken" - at Rothwell, north of Brisbane.

IN 1998, United States cultural anthropologist Dr Eben Kirksey, when he was a college exchange student, wit-nessed the massacre of more than 150 civilians by Indonesian troops in West Papua.

POPE Benedict XVI's conferral of the title, Prelate of Honour, on Brisbane archdiocese vicar general Monsignor Peter Meneely was celebrated at St Stephen's Cathedral last Sunday.

ARCHBISHOP Mark Coleridge of Brisbane will lead a series of prayer evenings at various venues across the archdiocese as part of the Year of Grace.

HUNDREDS of families visited the Vietnamese Catholic Community Centre, Inala, in Brisbane's south-west, for the annual Multicultural Fiesta on September 22.

AUSTRALIA'S increasingly pressured families - including those of the indigenous, asylum seekers and farmers - are the focus of this year's Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) statement issued for today's Social Justice Sunday.

THE V9 Vocations Novena, offered in parishes across Brisbane archdiocese during Sunday Masses from June 17 to August 12, is bearing much fruit.