HER grandmother, a cattle property and a bishop all played key roles in Sr Liz Wiemers’ life-changing journey to the heart of Australia. “My greatest mentor in life was my grandmother, and she used to say, ‘Never be the person who walks by on the other side of the road …’,” Sr Liz said as she explained why the Sisters ... Read More »
CHRISTIANS are familiar with St Paul’s Letters – to people like the Romans, the Corinthians, Ephesians, Galatians – a huge part of the New Testament, but what about the Letter to Terry? We can read through the Letters of St Paul as many times as we like but we won’t find the one to “Terry”. Even so, there’s a Terry ... Read More »
AFTER being housebound in Brisbane for months, Catholic father of six, Carlo Piloto, has used the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions across Queensland as a chance to get back in touch with nature and God’s creation. Despite the winter chill, his young family have discovered the delights of beach camping, venturing north and pitching a tent on Teewah Beach in Cooloola ... Read More »
SR Margaret Cleary, a Brisbane girl who’s wandered far, is the latest in a long list of Catholic religious to be honoured by the Queen, but she’s so mindful of being “ordinary”. Sr Margaret was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honours recently “for service to the Catholic Church of Australia”. It’s not an accolade she ... Read More »
BROTHER Christian and I have renewed our vows. We have now been professed for three years; and have renewed our vows for a further twelve months and, if we wish to continue and the Order wishes to accept us, we will thereafter make solemn profession – until death. And though the profession formula and the vows remain the same each ... Read More »
SUSAN Angus-MacInnes, crying and clutching red poppies in the middle of a field in France, was discovering a piece of a family tree with roots in Ireland, England, Wales and Australia. At the time, Susan was a senior teacher at St Kieran’s Primary School at Brighton on Brisbane’s northside, and she was on holidays with her husband Mac. After her ... Read More »
COLUMBAN Father Warren Kinne remembers fondly his early years as a missionary, zipping between villages on a Honda motorbike. “In the early 70s we would have been some of the first missionaries to seriously get into bikes,” Fr Kinne, celebrating 50 years of priesthood, said. The 74-year-old Columban who grew up in Bundaberg, chuckled as he reflected on his far-flung ... Read More »
GABRIELLE Fernandes spends her working days giving, and giving back, a gift she received when she was a schoolgirl. It’s a gift a group of young people helped her to discover and to cherish as a teenager – a personal relationship with Jesus. Growing up in a strong Catholic family in Rockhampton, Gabrielle has always been involved in ministry in ... Read More »
PAY It Forward, a movie that made $9.6 million in the United States on its opening weekend in 2000, holds meaning for Fr Thomas Ismoyo that cannot be measured in dollars. It describes how he lives his life as a priest. Fr Thomas, an Indonesian priest living in Brisbane while he studies at the Queensland University of Technology, celebrates his ... Read More »
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