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By Greg Harbort SOME readers might remember Uncle John’s Children’s Page ran in The Catholic Leader from 1955 to 1980....

BEING the youngest of 11 children, Spiritan Father Edward Khaemba knows a thing or two about listening. He says this...

HAMISH Heads sees the end of 2023 shaping up as the “icing on the cake”. He and his wife Karyn,...

SOME I-Kiribati men fish at midnight. John Grogan, who counted himself in their number, was fishing with his five-year-old son,...

“O.C.D” are three letters that, for many people, stand for “obsessive-compulsive disorder” but, for a young Brisbane man, they stand...

FR Kerry Crowley opens a faded copy of The Catholic Leader that reports his ordination 50 years ago. “I’ve been...

“FREEDOM” is what Fr John Fowles loves most about flying a plane. And he says “freedom” is what he likes...

DR Ian Marshall, a humble man honoured by a Pope for his life of service, was giving to his community...

“PASSIONATE” is the way Carmelina Vitale would like to be known and remembered. In fact, when dating her husband of...

IT was the dreaded Friday-afternoon Study of Religion class when one of Marist Brother Michael Callinan’s students raised their hand...

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

WITHIN the mix of students of the first class of Vietnamese refugees in Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Catholic...

THERESA Grace woke up one night and could no longer see. She was barely a teenager, in Year 8, studying...

THERE’S a “lie” that Margaret Brennan thinks society tells women about motherhood but it’s not a tall tale the 24-year-old’s...

THERE’S an old Slim Dusty song called Looking Forward, Looking Back, and its chorus could be an anthem for where...

ROCKHAMPTON priest Fr Kevin McGovern had a hand in some of Australia’s most contentious health ethics debates of the past...

“CONGNAM o Dia” is the simple motto of Mark Lysaght’s Irish clan, and he lives like it’s what flows through...

For someone who was raised Catholic, Sidney Poitier left a mark on the Catholic world. Much of it has to...

SOME of us may be still scrambling to find that perfect Christmas gift for the ones we love, but Timothy...

POPE Emeritus Benedict XVI recently indicated he’s at peace facing death when it comes. Well, Brisbane Catholic Shanelle Bennett is...

FILMMAKER and journalist Max Stahl, whose film footage of Indonesian troops firing on protesters in East Timor in 1991, brought...

AS boat people who fled war torn Vietnam, Dinh Nguyen and his wife Phien survived dangers at sea, and started...

HELEN Hickey has spent two decades preparing children and their families for First Communion and Confirmation but she was totally...

THE first time Sue Williams set foot in a classroom as a teacher she knew she was where she was...

A Catholic marriage: How Brisbane's Bub family faces life's ups and downs through faith and prayer.