The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

THE Church is pushing ahead with historic safeguarding measures aimed at tightening protection and governance – in line with recommendations of Australia’s Royal Commission into child sexual abuse. The National Catholic Safeguarding Standards – containing 10 criteria – is the latest tool to be adopted and, according to the presidents of Catholic Religious Australia and the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, ... Read More »

A CANON lawyer has spoken out about the correct form of prayers, after a mainstream media furore about some Brisbane Catholic girls’ schools teaching gender-neutral descriptions to replace traditional terms like “Lord”, “Father”, and “Son” during prayers. “My observation is that many teachers in Catholic schools don’t know the Catholic faith, and Catholics among them don’t practise the Catholic faith, ... Read More »

LOW-income families have not been “sufficiently protected by the decisions in the annual wage reviews”, a Church delegation told the Fair Work Commission on May 15. The Fair Work Act has “failed to provide an adequate wages safety net for low-paid workers with family responsibilities” or “alleviate the poverty and disadvantage suffered by them and their families”. John Fernon and ... Read More »

VENEZUELAN New Farm parishioner Javier Alejandro Lindarte Montero said his country was in the middle of a social, political and economic crisis. “Venezuela has the highest inflation rate in the world,” Mr Lindarte Montero said.  “It has become one of the top three most corrupt governments in the world.  “It is also leading the lowest minimum wage in the Latin ... Read More »

THE Plenary Council 2020 is yielding a “counter cultural” shift in the way Catholics in Australia communicate, with huge numbers among the country’s five million faithful sharing their stories of calling and commitment. “For many lay people, it is the first time they may feel that the Church is seeking their input on the future of the Catholic Church in ... Read More »

PARISHIONERS, Franciscan friars and sisters, parish school students and locals filled Little Flower Church, Kedron to celebrate 50 years of worship and community on March 31. Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge celebrated the anniversary Mass, joined by parish administrator Franciscan Father Mario Debattista and Franciscan Father Anthony Selvaraj in a packed church. There have been three churches where Little Flower Church ... Read More »

FOR 100 years, Catholics have gathered to join in the “light from Christ” at St Patrick’s Church, Laidley. And historically, it has also been a place where that light was shared.  Our Lady of the Valley,  Gatton Laidley parish priest Fr Noyichan Mamoottil said he recently did some digging into the history of the parish. He said Fr Patrick Fouhy ... Read More »

BLIND Eye homeless shelter in South Brisbane will host a monthly Sunday Mass during 2019, establishing itself as a bona fide Church for the people. “Pope Francis asks us to be a Church that is ‘poor for the poor’, and this is a response here in Brisbane,” Blind Eye Ministries centre manager Eddie Murray said.  Mr Murray, who is one ... Read More »

A BRISBANE parish has found a new way to bring Church to the streets with an innovative Ash Wednesday encounter.  “We can hide and just be happy with what we do at church, or we can witness and go out and be what Jesus wants us to be,” parish priest at Our Lady of the Southern Cross Church in Springfield ... Read More »