GEORGINA Edwards might need a larger car if she’s going to handle impromptu school pick-ups this term. The doting grandmother from St Bernard’s Church, Upper Mount Gravatt, waved off six grandchildren to the same school, Clairvaux MacKillop College, when Term 1 started last week. Her grandchildren are the second generation of two families, the Edwards and the Lendarduzzis, to go ... Read More »
AUSTRALIA’S peak welfare body wants the Federal Government to add $95 to the Newstart allowance because it says costs of living are unliveable on the current payment. Australian Council of Social Services, of which Catholic Social Services Australia was a member, increased its original demand for $75 a week to $95, saying the situation had become more urgent. ACOSS chief ... Read More »
PASSIONIST Father David King has bid farewell to Brisbane after 12 years as he begins a new chapter with his order ministering to seminarians from Vietnam to Melbourne. He was farewelled by the Passionist community at the Australia Day Mass at the Fort at Oxley, where the Brisbane community is based, and said “the God of surprises” once again surprised ... Read More »
ABORIGINAL educator Cynthia Rowan has taken on the important task of raising Indigenous awareness and introducing a reconciliation action plan (RAP) into the Archdiocese of Brisbane. “The concept of reconciliation is to build a respectful relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the broader Australian community – in this case the Catholic community,” 68-year-old Ms Rowan, a parishioner ... Read More »
AGAINST the backdrop of a summer of unprecedented bushfires across Australia, Brisbane Catholics are preparing for a forum on the Church response to the broad range of today’s environmental and social justice issues in the light of faith. Our Lady Queen of Apostles Parish, Stafford, is hosting the forum – Care for Our Common World: Living Laudato Si’ … Think ... Read More »
PAPUA New Guinean priest Carmelite Father Paul Sireh hopes the first chapel built in honour of Blessed Peter To Rot outside of PNG could speed up his canonisation process. Fr Sireh, the chaplain to the PNG Catholic community in Australia, said a new chapel for Blessed Peter To Rot at Marian Valley was an important step in promoting his cause ... Read More »
ALBANY Creek parishioners are praying for their parish priest of 34 years who was rushed to hospital after suffering a stroke. Fr Ron Mollison was found at the presbytery in Albany Creek having suffered a “significant” stroke on January 6, the day after the parish celebrated its 34th anniversary. The 80-year-old has been in the parish from the day it ... Read More »
THE streets are empty, people stay indoors and a “horrifying silence” has gripped Wuhan, at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak. The central Chinese city of 11 million people has been under quarantine lockdown since January 23, with no transport links in or out, and residents facing food queues and shortages of essential supplies including face masks. Across China, nearly ... Read More »
FAMILIES are focusing on the holy lives of St Thérèse of Lisieux and her parents Sts Zelie and Louis Martin whose relics are several days into a tour of Brisbane archdiocese. The holy saints, known for their devotion to the Catholic faith and steadfast commitment to the family, are in Australia for a four-month pilgrimage. The relics are now in ... Read More »
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