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Workers repair the doorway of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Qaraqosh, Iraq. Pope Francis plans to visit Qaraqosh...

New finding: More doctors and nurses needed to work in palliative care. AUSTRALIA has only half the number of palliative...

Faith journey: Catechumens attend the Rite of Election in St Stephen’s Cathedral. Photo: Courtesy Jenny Close BRISBANE’S Catholic community will...

Brisbane priest Fr Jim Browne recalls how he found himself at the centre of a fresh investigation for the Hilton...

Freedom fighter: Campus missionary Vivien Dolar, from the Queensland University of Technology. VIVIEN Dolar does not measure success by how...

Fr Adrian Sharp: “So whatever means we can use to help people live and embrace the faith in its entirety,...

Vanessa Comninos: “And the very last thing that Jesus said to us before He was received into heaven – Matthew...

Evangelising kindness: “It’s just that, showing what the Church is, and that welcoming community, that sense of belonging, that helping...

St Pope John Paul II: “Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and...

Dr Mary Healy: “It’s important to recognise that baptism in the Holy Spirit and the embrace of the Holy Spirit...

Complex debate: “The complex relationship between white Australia and its Indigenous people makes the notion of Australia Day an abstract...

Saintly creation: The statue of St Cecilia, crafted by Stefano Maderno in 1600, occupies the prime position in front of...

Medical help: "The Church continues to pray for those who are suffering and welcomes any new medically proven forms of...

Pax et bonum: Franciscan Father Francesco Mary Gavazzi, second from left, with his Franciscan Friars of the Renewal brothers in...

Gruesome truth: “Late-term abortions are gruesome and require the destruction and mutilation of babies. Somewhere along...

Tim Staples: "There’s a growing crucial need for Catholics also to be able to give reasons...

Caring for environment: Judicial vicar Fr Adrian Farrelly explains what making environmental protection part of canon...

Back to basics: “... Beyond the headlines there has been an important realisation from all sides...

Collector clergyman: Fr Edward Hayes holds what is possibly a Diprotodon’s leg bone, with some of...

Expedition: The World Expo 88 team visiting the Vatican Museums. IT’S the stuff of dreams. You...

Rebuilding slowly: Benjamin Blanchard is the co-founder of SOS Chretiens d'Orient, a non-government organisation rebuilding the...

SEVENTEEN abuse survivors are sitting in a room in Hobart as a Catholic priest guides them through the life, death...

Pope Francis: "It's so sad when I'm celebrating Mass here or inside the basilica and I...

Call to communion: Bishop Munib Younan of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, president of
the Lutheran World Federation,...

Strong voice: Fr Peter O’Neill at a migrant worker demonstration in front of the Presidential Palace...