The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

IT is the story that has saturated our TV screens for the past three weeks...

AFTER reading letters in The Leader over several months urging us to pray for more priests, I have to ask, "where is our faith?"I cannot for one moment believe that the good Lord would let the institution of the Catholic Church disintegrate as we see it if he didn't have a plan for it to go in a different direction...

THE devastation of the Asian earthquake and tsunami on Boxing Day might seem like a world away, but for some of Australia's emergency nurses it is simply a matter of time before they see the damage and the suffering first hand...

DEACON GARY STONE reports from Thailand on the Australian contribution to the tsunami relief effort.

THE clergy shortage study (CL 12/12/04) should be a warning to all Catholics who believe "It is the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass that matters"...

IN this week's People story we feature Lyn Kirwin (pictured), a midwife at the Mater Mothers' Hospital in Brisbane, who will be helping to deliver babies over Christmas...

AMONG those attending Mass this Christmas will be thousands of people who rarely come near the door of a church during other times of the year...

The shortage of priests is a major challenge in many Australian dioceses...

WHAT do the Catholic people of Brisbane archdiocese want? A prophetic voice or a rampart defence? Catholics today are present in every segment of Australian society...