THE decision by a pay TV channel to screen the controversial animated series Popetown in Australia is an insult to all Catholics...
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Morals and human decisions
WE can't really expect politicians to make pronouncements on fundamental principles of morality...
Read More »Strength in new leadership role
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...
Read More »God answers our prayers
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...
Read More »God’s standards are clear
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...
Read More »No mountain top too high
THIS week's People story is on Gerrard Gosens (pictured), blind from birth, who tried to reach the top of Mt Everest in April...
Read More »Fairness in the workplace
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...
Read More »“Battler” Brother’s diamond days
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...
Read More »Indignities of the detention system
FIRST we heard about women in immigration detention centres raising children behind razor wire...
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