“I FEEL when I go up there, St Thomas’ is home,” long-time Camp Hill parishioner and former St Thomas’ School teacher Lola Radford said. It was also home to four generations of Mrs Radford’s family; she has four great-grandchildren at St Thomas’. The Radford family was one of many families who gathered to commemorate 90 years of St Thomas’ School ... Read More »
ARCHBISHOP Mark Coleridge says the Church is not about to “butt out” of debates over environmental concerns. Archbishop Coleridge offered that assurance in his response to a presentation given in Brisbane by president of the Oceania Federation of Catholic Bishops Conferences Archbishop Peter Loy Chong of Suva, Fiji. Archbishop Chong gave first-hand insight into the plight of Pacific islanders affected ... Read More »
A QUEENSLAND bishop removed from office in 2011 by Pope Benedict has said Catholic school principals were emerging as the voice and the heartbeat of the Church in local communities and needed to be listened to. Bishop Bill Morris, the former Bishop of Toowoomba, has called for greater dialogue within the Church as a way of moving forward and past ... Read More »
ABOUT 80 people have held a peaceful prayer vigil outside a Brisbane university art gallery, in protest against a “blasphemous” artwork depicting the Virgin Mary cradling male genitalia. A vigil organiser said the aim was “to bear public witness to our faith and devotion to our Blessed Mother, and to make public reparation to her immaculate Heart for this grave ... Read More »
WHEN the news becomes personal, it’s a whole other level of journalism. When understanding directions of staying within the home, with ominous warnings of “leaving”, it’s a whole other level of fear. When the elderly couple ordinarily occupying a nearby pew at the Saturday Vigil Mass are mentioned on news reports, it’s a whole other level of despair. Those were ... Read More »
BRISBANE Assembly is less than a month away and Brisbane archdiocese plenary council co-ordinator Eric Robinson said he was excited to see everyone there on October 4 and 5. The assembly will be held at St Laurence’s College, South Brisbane, and registrations close on September 20. Mr Robinson said he was looking forward to the assembly as a chance to ... Read More »
A CATHOLIC priest has told how he prayed in the middle of the night at a shrine on the Gold Coast hinterland surrounded by fire, and fearing for the safety of dozens of pilgrims staying in nearby cabins. “I was on my knees with the rosary beads in the chapel and praying for protection from Heaven,” Pauline Father Albert Wasniowski ... Read More »
TWENTY years after East Timor’s historic vote for independence, the Marist Brothers are being recognised for their work helping to rebuild the new nation’s shattered schools and to train teachers. East Timor was left in ruins after the Indonesian military retreated from the half-island state in 1999, burning and looting – 80 per cent of schools were destroyed, while 90 ... Read More »
PREPARING the next generation for the workforce will require a huge shift in education and culture, according to a leading social researcher. “Our world is changing, our work is changing, and therefore our approach needs changing,” Ashley Fell has told Queensland’s Catholic secondary school principals meeting in Townsville. Young Australians – Gen Z’s, aged between 10 and 24 – and ... Read More »
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