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LENT is a time of conversion and penance that the Catholic Church offers to believers to prepare for and live ...

By Father Cassidy Stinson “BLESSED are the clean of heart, for they will see God” (Mt 5:8). I, like many ...

TODAY is Ash Wednesday and it marks the official launch of Caritas Australia’s annual Project Compassion appeal that runs for ...

BRISBANE Deacon Peter Pellicaan grew up outside the Catholic tradition – without a liturgical calendar – and so when he ...

Humanitarian campaign: “For the first time in my life, in the camp, I felt cared for and accepted,” Jamila, Bangladesh. ...

Easter egg buying tip: buy only chocolate that is certified slavery-free. A CATHOLIC organisation fighting modern slavery and human trafficking has launched it’s ...

https://youtu.be/V9r8W1Vhv7M Lenten beginning: This is the homily of Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge for the Ash Wednesday Mass on February 17, ...

Lenten Time: A man receives ashes on Ash Wednesday at St. Francis of Assisi Church in New York in 2014. This year ...

Alice Carwardine: “I think I just felt really helpless, and I think a lot of people feel that way.” ALICE ...

Call to prayer: Verbum Dei Missionary Sister Maeve Heaney has released a Lenten program accompanied by four new songs. SINGING ...

Lenten fast: “Coming off social media brought greater peace – less clutter to my mind, particularly at the end of ...

Following Christ: “This Lenten season let us all commit ourselves to a renewal of faith and trust in Christ.” ON ...

Why?: “These same students would put their bodies through so much pain to achieve various goals; winning the Head of ...

Lenten App: Evangelisation Brisbane’s Troy Tornabene showing off the Lent 2019 Compassion App. Photo: Joe Higgins MANY Catholics spend hours ...

In need: Brisbane boy Miguel Balagtas lies in a hospital corridor in the Philippines awaiting urgent medical attention. A BRISBANE ...

Brisbane Catholics Katelyn Ross and John Evans feature in a new video resource for the Archdiocese's annual Lenten program. Photo: ...

Fasting action: Archbishop Mark Coleridge has asked Brisbane Catholics to Ash Wednesday through to Good Friday in fasting in response ...

Archbishop Mark Coleridge: “In a sense the Church is always in crisis, always under judgement – not only the judgement ...

New program: Eileen Burkett, Fr Peter Brannelly, Elizabeth Harrington and Marist Brother Roger Burke with the Up from the Waters ...

Intrinsic value: “Things like a generous act of forgiveness, or gaze at the beauty of a star-studded night sky, move ...

Desert time: In speaking about Lent, Cardinal Mauro Piacenza says, “To enter this desert of the spirit it is necessary ...

Repenting: Year 6 students Jacqui Mair, Zac Norris and Lily Davison point to their Lenten promises.ON the wall in the ...

Offering hope: Marie Mondu at the Caritas Australia Project Compassion campaign launch in Brisbane.Marie Mondu, Caritas PNG co-ordinatorPapua New Guinean ...

  “Faith finds expression in concrete everyday actions meant to help our neighbors in body and spirit," Pope Francis said ...

Pope Francis: "The Lord always forgives everything."Photo: CNS/Paul Haring WHEN the Bible says, "though your sins be like scarlet" God ...