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DESPITE sporadic acts of brutal religious violence in Indonesia, Jakarta’s archbishop, Cardinal Ignatius Suharyo, says there is now relative peace...

THE planned destruction of the families, languages, cultures and traditions of the Indigenous communities of Canada through the residential school...

POPE Francis joined Indigenous pilgrims at a lake known for miraculous healings and encouraged them to lay their burdens on...

THE parents of a 12-year-old Archie Battersbee, have been refused permission to appeal against a decision to end his life...

IT is not unusual for Townsville Bishop Tim Harris to drive four, five or six hours to visit his Catholic...

CNS and staff reporters POPE Francis said he was "deeply sorry" for the Catholic Church's "catastrophic" involvement in the "cultural...

AS one of the youngest members of the Plenary Council, 24-year-old Thomas Warren, says ecological conversion was, for him, the...

When Pope Francis travels to Canada to apologise to Indigenous communities for the way the Catholic Church joined efforts to...

AFTER the dust has settled at Number 10 Downing Street, there’s time to consider what is the legacy of Boris...

THE Church needs to be flexible, and with the Spirit this can be achieved, says Maltese-born Charles Gauci, known to...

AMIDST global debate about the role of women in the Catholic Church, Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge says it will be...

Part of the Australian Catholic Church’s reconciliation and healing will be to introduce indigenous culture into the Catholic liturgy, as...

A CATHOLIC bioethics institute has critcised a decision by the High Court in London to allow doctors to withdraw ventilation...

MOVING a 4.7-tonne piece of an ancient marble column is never easy. When the piece is from a column that...

DURING February and March, Warsaw train stations were overflowing with women and children, refugees from the war in Ukraine. It...

IN the United States, Asians are a distinct minority. Those who are Catholic make them a minority within a minority....

A BRISBANE singer has written a remarkable opera about a little-known chapter of our military past – when the first...

By CNS and staff reporters IT was a different world when Frederik Mayet last spoke to The Catholic Leader in...

A LEADING bioethicist has claimed that many people who request euthanasia do so not because of pain – but because they...

A CATHOLIC priest who helped rescue a surfer being attacked by a five-metre great white shark, says he’s humbled after...

WAR in Ukraine has created a tragic predicament for hundreds of surrogate babies, and the mothers who are carrying them,...

Question Time by Fr John Flader Question: We sometimes hear the expression “the sacrifice of the Mass”. Why do we...

Twenty-four-year old Emma Baillie, has always been a sailing adventurer. So, it wasn’t surprising that the former student from Brisbane’s...

By Victor Gaetan, Catholic News Service Thirty years after the dramatic breakup of the Soviet Union, tremors from that socio-political...

By Cindy Wooden ENGLISH Archbishop Arthur Roche is a key figure in what is offhandedly known as the Catholic Church's...