The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

SYDNEY'S success in winning the bid for World Youth Day 2008 should be welcomed by all Catholics...

REGARDING the letter "Priesthood in old age" (Have Your Say, CL 7/8/05), Mark Blackman deplores the fact that there is a shortage of priests and that aged priests are not available in fulfilling the demands in the Church today...

THIS week's People story is on Brisbane mums, Karen Forbes and Lyn Allen (pictured), whose Event Catering business, started in the kitchen at St Rita's College, Clayfield, has risen to new heights...

THIS week's People story features the principal of St Stephen's School, Algester, Steve Taylor (pictured), who walked 812 km across Brisbane archdiocese raising money and awareness of Rosies - Youth on the Streets...

THE reasons why Catholics stop going to Mass are many and varied...

THE Eucharist is "the source and summit of the Christian life" (Vatican II documents Lumen Gentium) and this is the Year of the Eucharist...

CATHOLICS are sometimes accused of being too timid when it comes to spreading the Good News...

PRIESTHOOD, a vocation not a profession, is an essential part of the Catholic Church...

THIS week's People story is on World War II veteran, Marist Father Jim Bishop (pictured), who counts himself lucky to be alive to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of the conflict in the Pacific...