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MORE priests from India's Missionary Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament (MCBS) are expected to take up ministry in Brisbane archdiocese in the coming years.

BISHOP Lucio Andrice Muandula, from Mozambique's Xai-Xai diocese, recently dropped by to thank Brisbane Catholics for their support via Project Compassion to help his country's people recover from recent devastating floods.

AS the Church announced members of the council that will oversee its engagement with the Royal Commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane has reaffirmed his commitment to working with the commission.

THE election of Pope Francis and various other factors have been given as possible explanations for larger than usual numbers of worshippers attending Easter liturgies across Queensland this year.

A PASSION for social justice nurtured during his school days drives the man named as the official ambassador for the 2013 Catholic Education Week celebrations in Queensland.

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Although attempts were made to simplify the ceremony, Pope Francis officially inaugurated his ministry as Pope and Bishop of Rome in a liturgy filled with biblical symbolism and signs of the universality of his mission.

ON March 19, the solemnity of St Joseph, we saw the inauguration of Pope Francis as Bishop of Rome and Universal Pastor of the Catholic Church, standing in a line reaching back to the Apostle Peter.

BRISBANE priest Fr Michael Grace has spent much of Lent for several hours from around 2am deep in prayer outside a Bowen Hills abortion clinic.

"THE first pope born beneath the Southern Cross" is one of the history-making firsts Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane has observed with Pope Francis' election.