The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

Having returned from Rome where she covered the canonisation of St Mary MacKillop and associated celebrations for The Catholic Leader, journalist ROBIN WILLIAMS reflects on the experience of a lifetime and her own growing devotion to the holy Australian woman

This is an edited version of a homily army chaplain Deacon Gary Stone delivered at the funeral of Private Grant Kirby at St Peter Chanel Catholic Church, at The Gap, Brisbane, on September 3

New Queensland president of the St Vincent de Paul Society BRIAN MOORE, at his induction Mass in St Stephen's Cathedral, Brisbane, on July 2, issued a call for members to be true to the society's spiritual roots with a commitment to personal holiness. This is his address, drawn from his own thoughts as a Vincentian and from society publications

Fr Vincent Hobbs and Fr James Hynes were pastoral associates with Fr Raymond Lyons, as parish priest of St Mary Magdelene's Parish, in Bardon, Brisbane, in 1972.

As we celebrate Easter, FR DENNIS BYRNES reflects on the ultimate meaning of the Resurrection

In recognition of the Irish links to the beginnings of the Church in Queensland ARCHBISHOP DIARMUID MARTIN of Dublin was an invited guest at recent celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Church in the state. This is an edited version of a homily he preached at the Sesquicentenary Mass of Thanksgiving at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre on July 30.

Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass with clergy, religious and lay people when he dedicated a new altar at St Mary's Cathedral during World Youth Day in Sydney last month. This is an edited version of his homily.

Australian Catholic University theologian SR MARY COLOE offers insight into what celebrating Easter means in the lives of Christians today.

In the third and final of a series of Lenten lunch-time reflections presented at St Stephen's Cathedral on Wednesday, president of St Paul's Theological College, Brisbane, FR DAVID PASCOE explores how, having our eyes opened by Jesus, how we might see "with" each other as the Church.