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

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

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...

Unity: “Marriage is a beautiful thing. It’s the foundation of a civil society and forms the...

IN the previous edition of The Catholic Leader, I urged Catholics firstly to engage in the marriage debate with truth...

Vote issues: Peter Pellicaan with his wife Leone on their wedding day. Photo: Supplied. ON January...

United in prayer: Dominican Father Pan Jordan is demanding a fair process for asylum seekers. Photo: Mark...

Meeting the future: Kids with robots at the World Festival of Science. We already feel comfortable...

Steve Dickson: “I don’t go to church regularly. I pray a lot because I have a...

Family issues:“Our view is you’ve got to trust the parents to be parents, and the government...

Transgender rise: In 2014, using a statistic from a youth survey in New Zealand, which claimed...

Leading in faith: Fr Kevin Mullins leads a Good Friday procession in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. DRIVING...

Faith in marriage: “This is not a simple problem that can be easily addressed by reciting...

Marcus Riley: “The fact that we are living longer is a triumph for humanity. We should...

Caring for creation: “In other words, are you intimate with the natural world as God presented...

Schoolies team: Members of The Culture Project and their supporters gather at Surfers Paradise for their...

Mourning sickness: People observe a moment of silence in Republique square in Paris in memory of...

Ethical option: A selection of t-shirts from Melbourne business, Servi Store.POPE Francis inspired a business model...

Bruce Springsteen: “However, as I grew older, there were certain things about the way I thought,...

Mediamatters: “More educated and more intelligent listeners are the best antidote to the superficial, even erroneous...

Objects: “It is very clear pornography is a sexist educator. It shapes sexist attitudes … girls...

Asylum woes: “The mindset suggested that if even one brick in the asylum-seeker deterrent system was...

Leading the way: Pope Francis kisses the foot of a refugee during Holy Thursday Mass of...