AGAINST the backdrop of a summer of unprecedented bushfires across Australia, Brisbane Catholics are preparing for a forum on the Church response to the broad range of today’s environmental and social justice issues in the light of faith. Our Lady Queen of Apostles Parish, Stafford, is hosting the forum – Care for Our Common World: Living Laudato Si’ … Think ... Read More »
THE past two years spent out with the butcher’s paper and permanent markers in parish halls and small groups across Australia listening to “what the Spirit is saying” (Revelation 2:7) had been building up to this – 2020. And there was still plenty to be done. The Plenary Council National Facilitation team has opened up expressions of interest for those ... Read More »
LARRY Cox has helped air travellers to safe landings at busy airports and sat as a guide at the bedside of hospital patients on the toughest journeys of their lives. When he retired as manager of the communications centre and flight watch area at Brisbane Airport more than 20 years ago, he launched into something completely different. He became a ... Read More »
BRISBANE journalist Jo Hayes is more interested in her mental health than how many likes she gets on Facebook. The Channel 7 reporter and 4KQ newsreader recently spoke to a group of young Catholic women about the importance of regulating social media use. “We need to put boundaries in place to make sure social media is working for us, not ... Read More »
A SEA of Catholics flying devotional banners marched the streets of Brisbane’s CBD, publicly adoring and testifying the Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) last Sunday. Oratory Father Adrian Sharp said it was a great day with an impressive crowd. He said it was nice to ... Read More »
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