The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

THIS week's People story is on Gerrard Gosens (pictured), blind from birth, who tried to reach the top of Mt Everest in April...

I AM encouraged by The Catholic Leader 5/6/05 report that the Australian Catholic Commission for Employment Relations (ACCER) will be meeting with the Federal Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Mr Kevin Andrews, to discuss the Federal Government's proposed unjust industrial relations reforms...

THIS week's People story is on Catholic Leader columnist Marist Brother John Venard (pictured), who admitted he was lackadaisical about his faith when he took religious profession 60 years ago...

FIRST we heard about women in immigration detention centres raising children behind razor wire...

FEDERAL Health Minister Tony Abbott says it is good for Christians to be involved in politics, but that he doesn't think they should use their Christianity to make political decisions...

AT this time, the Church is doing the very important and pressing work of looking at future planning to ensure that parishes have the sacramental and pastoral care that they need...

THIS week's People story is on Fr John Fleming (pictured), one of Australia's leading Catholic bioethicists...

QUEENSLAND Senator Ron Boswell has indicated he is willing to introduce a private member's bill in Federal Parliament to curb the tragically high number of abortions in this country...

THE new film on the Crusades, Kingdom of Heaven, for all its fanfare, still delivers a powerful message that is vitally important today...