In Depth

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

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

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

FOR the past 21 years Brisbane social justice activist Peter Arndt has campaigned tirelessly for “those on the periphery”, even...

ALEPPO, besieged and destroyed in Syria’s war, is calm now, but 11 years of war and the accompanying economic sanctions...

WRITER, historian, and social justice activist, Dr Jackie Huggins AM believes Australian churches have a key role in “truth telling”...

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

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...

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...

CARDINAL George Pell, jailed for more than a year for sex abuse crimes he ultimately was cleared of, has told...

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

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

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

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

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 see lots of phones...

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

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

Pioneering priest: An image of Fr Angelo Confalonieri, the first missionary priest in Northern Australia. AT the long-abandoned British settlement...

Good shepherd: Columban Father Warren Kinne amongst his flock in Shanghai (at left and below). COLUMBAN Father Warren Kinne knows...

New author: Dr Ryan Messmore. Photo: Emilie Ng. RYAN Messmore is about to find out what happens when you broadcast...

Changed life: Helen Mahoney. Photo: Emilie Ng. HE prayed he wouldn’t get Daisy. Inside Mithra, a rehabilitation centre for children...

On the way: Eduardo Cruz takes a breather on the well worn path of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela...