The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

INSPIRATION takes many forms for Brisbane Canossian Sister Sally Fuller who recently made her final profession.

BRISBANE priest Fr Jan Bialasiewicz's "accidental" presence in Maroochydore parish on the weekend Daniel Morcombe disappeared in 2003 was to start him on a painful but ultimately inspirational journey with the missing boy's family.

INALA man Paul Bryett and his family are the human face of the almost 200,000 people across the Brisbane region research shows will not be able to afford to put a meal on their table this Christmas.

A 17-year-old school leaver who drowned in a resort pool in Fiji was this year's vice-captain of St Thomas More College at Sunnybank in Brisbane's south.

BRISBANE keeps serving up "firsts" for Archbishop Mark Coleridge.
The latest such experience involved Archbishop Coleridge flicking the switch on the annual Christmas lights display at St Gerard Majella Church, Chermside West, on November 30.

AN emotional rector of Holy Spirit Provincial Seminary, Monsignor Tony Randazzo affirmed the commitment of seminarians Stanley Orji and Ladu Yanga to the transitional diaconate at the Holy Spirit Chapel, Banyo, on November 22.

THE Mt St Michael's College, Ashgrove community is in mourning after the tragic death of one of their 2012 graduating students.

"IN my 26 years as a St Vincent de Paul (Society) member on the Gold Coast this is the most desperate Christmas I've encountered."

"HOW right it is at this time we should receive this relic. It is a call to us from another time not to circle the wagons, not to retreat into a closed place and lick our wounds."