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IT is a long road trip from Brisbane to Cherbourg to visit the community’s Ration Shed museum, but it is...

EIGHTY years ago this week, before Pope Francis told priests to be "shepherds with the smell of the sheep," his...

A NEW drug developed by Brisbane-based QIMR Berghofer could prove a breakthrough in treating long COVID and prevent re-infection. There...

In the hilltop town home to the former summer residence of popes, two domes tower over residences and restaurants: the...

FR Kerry Crowley opens a faded copy of The Catholic Leader that reports his ordination 50 years ago. “I’ve been...

By Fr John Flader Question: I understand that Pope Francis has recently issued a document on Blaise Pascal, speaking of...

DAMIEN Walker lovingly pieces together the broken bodies and faces of Jesus and his saints every day. Mr Walker, a...

KAYLA, 16, felt ashamed when she didn’t step in to protect her mum from her violent stepfather. She worried that...

IN an interview on the eve of Pope Francis’ trip to Hungary, Cardinal Péter Erdo, archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, said the...

“THE job is certainly getting much harder,” school principal Dan McMahon says, reflecting on research that shows increasing levels of...

TWO Australian archbishops have warned law changes proposed by the Australian Law Reform Commission would prevent Church schools from being...

TODAY marks 10 years of Pope Francis’s pontificate, a decade of Church reform and renewal that has seen a shift...

THE high cost of settling abuse claims is a major factor forcing large numbers of U.S. dioceses into bankruptcy proceedings....

ONE of the Church’s most influential leaders, Cardinal Michael Czerny sees a big shift in the way the Roman Curia...

SHARING the faith is the "oxygen" that "invigorates and purifies" Christian life, Pope Francis said. Beginning a new series of...

By Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge At the end of a long life, Benedict XVI, like Elizabeth II, seemed almost the...

CHRISTMAS for Brisbane’s thriving Sudanese Catholic communities is a time of faithful worship and prayer, accompanied by vibrant singing, dancing...

A NEW study has mapped the prevalence of youth self-harm across Australia, identifying states and regions that need to be...

A DOVE in flight lays a blanket over a homeless person in a new sculpture blessed by Pope Francis this...

By Adrian Gibb and Patrick O'Neill AMONG the historical mysteries encountered by new Brisbane archdiocese archivists Adrian Gibb and Patrick...

SOME 90,000 Myanmarese refugees live in nine camps on the Thai side of the border. At the height of displacement...

WITH a renewed membership, the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors met at the Vatican in late October and...

AFTER telling a funny story about receiving a cellphone decades ago that was "as big as a shoe," Pope Francis...

A VISITING U.S. right-to-life campaigner has a strong message to share: there is an alternative to the ‘easy’ solutions offered...

ALFREDO Barahona, has a message to Australian Catholics as the Church navigates a path of reconciliation with First Nations peoples...