The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

SUPPORTING indigenous families struggling with the death of loved ones in custody has been a major focus of Brisbane archdiocese's Murri Ministry.

ARCHBISHOP Mark Coleridge of Brisbane issued a "direct and personal challenge" at a Catholic men's breakfast to "join with me in the task of rebuilding God's Church".

A YOUNG Brisbane university student expected to be on his own at the annual Archbishop's Vocations Dinner for young men considering the priesthood.

QUEENSLAND Catholic Education Commission is working through "a number of unknowns" before it reaches "a definitive position on the Gonski funding model".

STUDENTS from Brisbane's All Hallows' School and St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace, will again combine to be the official Australian choir for the 2013 Anzac Day commemoration services at Gallipoli on Thursday (April 25).

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Cardinal George Pell of Sydney will serve on an international panel of cardinals to advise Pope Francis on the latest reform of the Holy See bureaucracy.

BOSTON (CNS): The first name released of someone killed in the April 15 explosions at the Boston Marathon was that of 8-year-old Martin Richard, whose picture in newspapers showed him grinning broadly, apparently at his first Communion.

IN a first for the Church in Australia, diocesan priests in Brisbane archdiocese will have the opportunity to live their vocations in a more structured community.

AUSTRALIA'S Truth, Justice and Healing Council (TJHC) has welcomed comments by Pope Francis calling on the Catholic Church to "act decisively" against child sexual abuse within the Church.