RAY Owen, who served Brisbane archdiocese for many years as a loyal and dedicated journalist, has died at the age of 81. Mr Owen died at The Wesley Hospital in Brisbane on October 15 after a long illness. He had worked as a senior journalist at The Catholic Leader for more than two decades from 1981, retiring in September 2002. ... Read More »
Among the many changes The Catholic Leader has implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic with its necessary restrictions has been the suspension of producing a printed edition and to continue publishing a weekly digital edition offered free of charge to readers. Letters to the Editor have not been published with the digital edition, which meant some familiar names have ... Read More »
SEMINARIAN and former intern at The Catholic Leader, Adi Indra, can tick getting ordained over the burial site of the first pope from his bucket list. The Indonesian-born seminarian for the Sandhurst diocese in Victoria was ordained a deacon on October 3 at St Peter’s Basilica which, in Catholic tradition, is known as the place where St Peter was buried. ... Read More »
STEPH Santos says a Catholic community that supports one another and engages in each other’s work is imperative. “We live in a culture that seeks to tear down one another when someone is succeeding, and, as Catholics, that should not be our attitude,” Miss Santos said. She received the Youth Leader Award at the 2017 Community Leader Awards, hosted by ... Read More »
The Catholic Leader is preparing for a new distribution model to readers outside of Brisbane archdiocese. From May 25, the paper will no longer be delivered to parishes in Cairns, Toowoomba and Townsville dioceses and to most parts of Rockhampton diocese. It will remain in the Yeppoon, Bundaberg and Rockhampton cathedral parishes and in all parishes of the Brisbane archdiocese. ... Read More »
MEDIA experts have recognised The Catholic Leader newspaper as a benchmark for quality Catholic journalism at the 2018 Australasian Catholic Press Association Awards. Journalist Mark Bowling received the award for Best News Story for his story on the disturbing teen “sexting” culture raised by a Catholic school principal in Bundaberg. Mr Bowling also received highly-commended awards for his stories ... Read More »
AUSTRALIANS are mourning the death of respected educator, former columnist for The Catholic Leader and author Marist Brother John Venard Smith, who died last week. Marist Brother Roger Burke said Br Venard died peacefully on January 31 aged 89, two weeks short of his 90th birthday. Br Venard was best known as a teacher and principal in a career that ... Read More »
EXPERT media professionals have named The Catholic Leader the best Catholic newspaper in Australasia. The Catholic Leader was named Best Newspaper out of more than 100 news publications at the 2017 Australasian Catholic Press Association (ACPA) Awards in Auckland, New Zealand, last night. Published for the Archdiocese of Brisbane with a national focus, ACPA judges said The Catholic Leader was ... Read More »
IT was only meant to be a three-week job. In 1978 Debbie Preuss applied for a job with The Catholic Leader, a newspaper she had grown up reading in her hometown of Allora, on Queensland’s Darling Downs. The 58-year-old moved to Brisbane when she was 18, staying with her aunt and uncle. The pair encouraged her to find work using ... Read More »
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