The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

POPE John Paul turned 80 on Thursday, an age at which most people are ready to slow down and take life a little easier...

AS Queensland president of the Australian Family Association, I attended the gathering in Melbourne entitled "Family - Dare to Dream" and I must take up the issue of the definition of family referred to both in your editorial (CL7/5/00) and the subsequent letter by Chris Christensen (CL 14/5/00)...

IN this week's People profile, Franciscan Missionary of Mary Sister Pamela Barker tells how, by co-ordinating fundraising for Zoe's Place, a planned Brisbane hospice and respite centre for children with life-limiting illnesses, she also hopes to help save the marriages of their parents...

IN this week's People profile, Australian Catholic University Vice-Chancellor Peter Sheehan tells how he looks forward to the day when the institution can play a pivotal role in a post-economic rationalist world...

THE Church has been busy apologising to others in recent months...

FR David Pascoe (CL 30/4/00) writes: "Fr Hanlon equates laying on of hands with ordination and hence sees the latter as evident in the action accounted for in the Acts of the Apostles (6:1-8)...

THE traditional family is close to becoming an endangered species in Australia, and deserves special protection...

THE main thrust of Fr Kevin Ryan's article (CL 16/4/00) seemed to be that the real obstacle to living Christian lives today is "rules and regulations"...

In this week's People profile, the co-ordinator of Brisbane's Centre for Multicultural Pastoral Care, Jose Zepeda, tells how he believes Australians and the Catholic Church in this country can find a new direction by embracing the cause of refugees and asylum seekers ...