The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

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...

THIS week's People story is on Brazilian social justice advocate Francisco 'Chico' Whitaker (pictured), who describes his passion for social justice as a 'virus' that entered his heart as a university student...

POPE Benedict's decision to waive the five-year waiting period for his predecessor's sainthood cause is in response to an overwhelming feeling in the Church that John Paul II is already a saint...

EDMUND Casey draws on a wealth of first-hand experience in his comments on Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen (Have Your Say, CL 15/5/05), responding to Fr Ryan's column (Real Life, CL 8/5/05)...