KENDAL Fraser and her mum Rene Thompson know they share common DNA, but they never thought they’d share a job title helping women with debilitating health issues. The mother and daughter duo from Emerald in central Queensland are studying to become practitioners of the Creighton Method FertilityCare System. As practitioners, the pair will be able to teach women how to ... Read More »
DOZENS of refugees held in a Kangaroo Point hotel for up to two years have been granted bridging visas and are being released to live in the community. Twenty three Medevac refugees were released yesterday as well as another two refugees held at the Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation (BITA) detention centre. From Kangaroo Point the refugees were taken by bus ... Read More »
BRISBANE’S Catholic community will welcome more than 100 men and women into the Church at Easter this year. On Sunday February 21, 117 Catechumens – young, mature and from diverse backgrounds – celebrated the annual Rite of Election liturgy at Brisbane’s St Stephen’s Cathedral. Those invited to take part in the rite will go on to receive the three sacraments ... Read More »
BRISBANE priest Fr Pat Dowd, described as a “real friend” and a humble and dedicated parish priest who served across the Brisbane Archdiocese, was farewelled at a moving funeral Mass in St Stephen’s Cathedral today. Fr Vince Hobbs spoke of his longtime friend and year mate as “an authentic disciple of Jesus, a man of real faith, and hope and ... Read More »
POPE Francis has updated the Vatican’s legal code to grant reductions in sentences, changes to trials in absentia and streamlining the appeals process. The changes are outlined in Pope Francis’ motu proprio “Introducing modifications in the area of justice”, that was published yesterday. The changes come as Vatican officials have been under increased scrutiny over the way they handled finances ... Read More »
THOUSANDS of Brisbane Catholics are lining up in churches today to start their Lenten journey with a COVID-safe sprinkling of ash as the liturgy adapts to the ongoing pandemic. The new practice brought in to maintain social distancing has been the custom in many countries like Italy for hundreds of years. It became another change in a long list of ... Read More »
HOLY Land Commissary for Australia and Kedron parish administrator Franciscan Father Mario Debattista said 600 years of the Commissariats of the Holy Land was a significant milestone but warned the caretakers were in dire need of donations. Fr Debattista said total donations from Australia to the Holy Land from last year were down below one third of what it was ... Read More »
BRISBANE Archbishop Mark Coleridge has presided over the launch of Project Compassion 2021, explaining that “God wants to give all His children what they need for life”. Usually brimming to capacity with Catholic school students and teachers, this year’s Project Compassion Mass inside Brisbane’s St Stephen’s Cathedral was a scaled-down affair due to COVID-19 restrictions. Archbishop Coleridge told a small ... Read More »
WHEN Benedictine Father Robert Nixon gave up his music career in 2013 to become a monk in Western Australia, he was resigned to the fact that he might never perform in public again. The Mt Isa-born pianist and former music teacher is a Benedictine priest in Australia’s only monastic town, New Norcia, Western Australia. Before entering New Norcia, Fr Nixon ... Read More »
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