The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

THE decision by a pay TV channel to screen the controversial animated series Popetown in Australia is an insult to all Catholics...

WE can't really expect politicians to make pronouncements on fundamental principles of morality...

THIS week's People story is on Brisbane archdiocese's first lay parish pastoral director, Ursuline Sister Kari Hatherell (pictured), who is pioneering a new model of leadership at Holland Park-Mt Gravatt Parish...

THE rain came bucketing down across wide areas of southern NSW and parts of Victoria last weekend, as if in answer to all the prayers that have been offered up for a break in the drought...

IN 'Christian faces in politics are good' (CL 5/6/05), statements attributed to Tony Abbott, the Federal Minister for Health and Ageing, certainly invite comment...

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...