Caritas Australia launches appeal for COVID-19 crisis sweeping across India
AS India faces a massive surge in new infections and deaths caused by COVID-19, Pope Francis said he was praying ...
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Pope dedicates month of May to praying Rosary for end to pandemic
POPE Francis is urging Catholics to pray their Rosaries through the month of May for an end to the COVID-19 ...
India records 329,000 cases in two days as WHO warns pandemic is at ‘critical point’
EVERY four and a half hours India records more COVID-19 cases than Australia has had for the entire pandemic. On ...
Archbishop Coleridge calls Catholics to a new kind of prayer, one of listening to the Father who sees all
https://youtu.be/V9r8W1Vhv7M Lenten beginning: This is the homily of Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge for the Ash Wednesday Mass on February 17, ...
Message for Lent encourages Catholics to care for those affected by pandemic
Lenten Time: A man receives ashes on Ash Wednesday at St. Francis of Assisi Church in New York in 2014. This year ...
Young family stuck between state borders for 17 days finds their trust in God strengthened
Frustrated: Jennifer Costin and her husband (not pictured) staged a protest in Albury with their sons Benedict, 4, David, 2, ...
God’s caring for Brisbane health worker in London
https://youtu.be/z1NtX97lfhY DAVID Armour knows about life and death on the pandemic frontline. The Brisbane Catholic paramedic working in London has ...
Pam Betts on guiding Brisbane Catholic Education through 2020
Brisbane Catholic Education executive director Pam Betts: In 2020, “Our school communities were just amazing”. EARLIER this year Pam Betts ...
Pandemic increased the need for healing prayer, Charismatic community leader says
Needing prayer: “The pressures experienced during the past nine months have often caused or exacerbated issues in people’s lives and ...
Centacare’s dedicated teams ‘stronger together in 2020’
Celebrations: Centacare commemorated its annual awards in a different way this year with local events held both virtually and in-person as ...
Brisbane churches open for Christmas Masses but registration required
Register now: Cathedral dean Fr Anthony Mellor and parish secretary Carmel Devery are spreading the word that people need to ...
Young couple from Brisbane ‘counting down the days’ to see family across the border
Family: Pia and Arnie Hurdoyal with their son Micah Joseph. AS the Queensland border is set to reopen to Greater ...
Vulnerable children in out-of-home care receive post-pandemic support on family camp
Welcome to camp: First-time Edmund Rice Camps volunteer Bonnie Ranger is immersed in the experience of a family camp. EDMUND ...
Confirmation is not about being ready, it is a gift of transformative grace, writes Br Sebastian Condon
Pandemic confirmations: Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, poses for a group photo July 26, 2020, ...
Melbourne Archbishop calls for evidence of church risks in wake of restriction disparity
“I am deeply shocked and disappointed at the disparity imposed on people of faith in Victoria today,” Archbishop Comensoli said ...
Almost a third of Australians experience food insecurity in 2020
Doors close: People unload food and provisions from the back of a ute, which was distributed by ...
Vinnies ready to help people going through tougher times
Stress: “Everyone has a right to safe, secure and stable housing. This is not the time to ...
Golden Wedding anniversary Mass a reminder of abounding love in dire times
Joyful days: Susan and Kevin Hallam celebrated with 44 other couples their marital milestones at the Golden ...
Natasha Stott Despoja says domestic violence against women during COVID-19 is ‘the shadow pandemic’
Tragedy: Brisbane’s Hannah Clarke and her three young children were murdered on a street in Camp Hill ...
National event aims to re-engage fastest diminishing demographic in the Catholic Church
Growing in faith: More than 860 men gathered in small groups at 42 hubs, like this one ...
South metro parishes reopen as Queensland reports no community transmission
Toll climbing: A woman in a protective face mask walks along the Princes Bridge in Melbourne, Victorian ...
Australian priest from small Louisiana missionary order says God may want them to visit Australia
Missionary evangelisers: Fr Antonio Maria Speedy (far right), originally from Adelaide, one of the Poor Friars who ...
In pictures – Explosion in Beirut adding suffering to Lebanon’s dire situation
Widespread panic: An injured man is pictured as smoke rises from the site of an explosion ...
Australian bishops put mental health first as lockdowns magnify unseen battle faced by millions
Social justice: “Three million workers have mental ill-health or are caring for someone with mental ill-health,” the ...
Brisbane south-west parish postpones Mass, private prayer at church in wake of new COVID cases
New cases: The Logan woman who tested positive for COVID-19 is a cleaner at Parklands Christian College, ...
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