The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

BUILDING tomorrow’s leaders – the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Foundation has enjoyed great success in recent years and has just opened its 11th round of scholarships. The foundation supports Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in their completion of Years 11 and 12. QATSIF secretariat director Michael Nayler said last year the foundation took on 1416 new graduates ... Read More »

MIXING the soprano and alto of the girls’ schools with the baritone and bass of the boys’ schools, All Hallows’ School, Brisbane, hosted a three-day choral festival for Catholic school students from across the state last weekend.  Organiser and All Hallows head of culture Cathie Neil said it was the first time the schools were coming together to sing and ... Read More »

CHAMPIONS throughout the history of sport rarely make it on their own; they’re supported by coaches, trainers and support staff that bring out their best – a philosophy embraced at Trinity College, Beenleigh, through its Talented Athletes Program. High-profile sports nutritionist Sally Anderson, an advisor to many of Australia’s national sporting bodies and who works closely with many elite athletes, ... Read More »

EVERY day when Stella Pratt enters Trinity College, Beenleigh, it’s a whole new world for the Year 11 student. At home Stella speaks Auslan, or sign language, with her family and younger sister, Olivia. Both her parents are deaf, along with her maternal grandparents and the majority of her aunts and uncles. However, Stella and Olivia, who started in Year ... Read More »

THE Queensland Catholic Education Commission has started a push to build 80 kindergartens on school grounds across the state – a project that would cost $80 million. The complete-campus approach would see preschools built onsite at about one third of all Catholic schools. It’s a project being championed by Queensland Catholic Education Commission executive director Dr Lee-Anne Perry, who  said ... Read More »

BULLIES seem to be thriving everywhere these days – in politics, in the media, in the workplace, online  – but one place they are not is St Eugene’s College, Burpengary. Assistant principal for religious education Megan Kozak said the National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence on March 15 was the perfect time to highlight the problem. “We know ... Read More »

WILD winds whipped up by Cyclone Oma could not stop the blessing and official opening of Stage Two at McAuley College, Beaudesert. Following an Acknowledgement of Country by Foundation Student Luke Walsh, Auxiliary Bishop Ken Howell of Brisbane led a celebration Mass for the more than 154 students across Years 7, 8 and 9 and staff. They were joined by ... Read More »

THREE leading Catholic schools in Brisbane have started 2019 with a new two-year religious course to coincide with the implementation of the ATAR system. The new course is named “3:16”, with reference to the scripture of John 3:16 – “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not ... Read More »

FROM its impoverished beginnings in one room of a convent to a chorus of 800 voices overflowing a cathedral 90 years later, the story of Brigidine College, Indooroopilly, has been one of strength and gentleness. Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge celebrated the college’s 90-year anniversary Mass at St Stephen’s Cathedral on February 8, with Dominican Father Pan Jordan, Fr Neville Yun ... Read More »