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QUEENSLAND Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced a path to treaty between the state and First Nations people which includes a...

MYANMAR’s Catholic prelate, Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, has warned the military in his country is cracking down hard on dissident...

AUSTRALIAN Catholic University lecturer Dr Richard Galeano loves telling his students why he became a paramedic.  “I was walking down...

The fire of faith should spur us to conversion, not lull us into complacency, Pope Francis said in his Angelus...

More than 40 people — mainly children — have died in a fire in a Coptic Orthodox church in Giza Governorate,...

AUSTRALIAN children’s data is sold everyday for advertising purposes without any legal repercussions.  Veronica Hosking wanted to change this.  Mrs...

PRO-DEMOCRACY advocate Cardinal Joseph Zen was named among six defendants on charges relating to an alleged failure to properly register...

DENIS Anthonisz said the greatest thing about Queen of Apostles School at Stafford was the community. “It has always been...

AFTER months of hearings across Australia, the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide has released its interim report, with 13...

AFTER a 30 year career and a remarkable rise through the ranks, Caritas Australia is farewelling Sothy Lay, Caritas Australia’s...

THE passing of time in one's life is meant to be lived as a God-given grace and not a meaningless...

FORTITUDE Valley mum and midwife Kristen Meadows said participating in Mater's new HOPE program was a “blessing” for her twins...

POPE Francis said he is spiritually close to those hurt or killed in a fire at an oil facility in...

YEAR 12 St Mary MacKillop, Nundah students Vashti Hooper and Gopika Raj said their school's patron saint was an “inspiration...

IT was a quiet afternoon visit last Friday by a Department of Home Affairs team that finally delivered the Tamil...

ARCHIE Battersbee, the 12-year-old British boy whose family waged an unsuccessful legal fight to stop his doctors from disconnecting him...

TOOWOOMBA Catholic Br Isaac Seraphin Webb made his first profession with the Capuchin Friars at Wynnum’s Guardian Angels Church last...

PRINCIPAL Fran Burke believes child protection should be everybody’s business. She leads St Joseph’s primary school, Bardon, where students recently...

FAMILIES seeking support in Church-run groups like Xavier Children’s Support Network were going to see benefits from the State Government’s...

A BILL to restore territory rights has passed in the House of Representatives, edging the ACT and Northern Territory closer...

Brisbane archdiocese has performed well in the latest external safeguarding audit of parishes, examining implementation of practices for safeguarding children...

TOOWONG parish priest Fr Wrex Woolnough celebrated his golden jubilee at a Mass at St Ignatius parish on Sunday, July...

Please note - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following story contains the name of a person...

THE planned destruction of the families, languages, cultures and traditions of the Indigenous communities of Canada through the residential school...

BISHOP Robert Barron, the founder of the Catholic media apostolate Word on Fire, was installed as the ninth bishop of...