CHILDHOOD dress-up games at the Webb family house often heard an unlikely name floating around the children’s play – Sr Rose. It was no miraculous apparition of a long-lost religious sister. It was young Nancy Webb’s playtime pseudonym and the name she recently took at her profession to the Sisters of Life – Sr Rose Patrick O’Connor. Her father Paul ... Read More »
Full-time, Fixed Term – 4 year contract, commence January 2020 Salary: 162,325 – $177,577 K – 12, 770 students St John’s is looking for a new principal to join their vibrant and growing K-12 school. St John’s has a long tradition of providing quality Catholic education to the families of Roma and surrounds. Promoting the personal growth of all students through ... Read More »
OAKEY parishioners, students, local representatives and inter-faith leaders headed for St Monica’s Church to celebrate 100 years of parish life on May 12. Toowoomba Bishop Robert McGuckin celebrated the centenary Mass, with parish priest Missionary Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament Father Thomas Areekuzhy concelebrating. Parish pastoral council secretary Anne Teakle said it was a wonderful Mass. Mrs Teakle said there ... Read More »
THE gifts of the Holy Spirit have been neglected, says Dr Mary Healy, who has made it her mission to see his renewal in Christian hearts everywhere. Dr Healy is a professor of Sacred Scripture at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit and an international speaker on topics related to Scripture, evangelization, healing, and the spiritual life. Prof Healy, who ... Read More »
CATHOLICS across the world are preparing their final checks as they board their flights to Panama for World Youth Day 2019, and among them are 21 from the Mount Isa WYD group. While the majority of the group are Mount Isa parishioners, four are seminarians – two from Toowoomba and two from Townsville – as well as a mother-daughter pair ... Read More »
A UNIQUE campaign to make Toowoomba a porn-free city is spreading across the country and has sparked international interest. Toowoomba is preparing for its third annual public rally next month during which the city’s mayor stands shoulder-to-shoulder with men from all walks of life and together they pledge not to watch pornography. “There is overwhelming research out now that ... Read More »
THE quiet, timeworn halls of the former Toowoomba South State School were humming with activity once again as work began on a central administration building for Toowoomba Catholic Schools. Toowoomba diocese bought the heritage-listed site in 2015. The diocese named the site’s central location and proximity to existing church buildings, St Patrick’s Cathedral and Parish centre, as key reasons for ... Read More »
NANCY Webb is used to waking up to a full household of 14 people but she’s about to find out if she can handle life with a spiritual family nearly ten times the size. The young Catholic from Toowoomba is joining the Sisters of Life, a contemplative and active religious community of women founded in New York in 1991 to ... Read More »
WOMEN from Toowoomba diocese have made a life-changing trip to the Philippines to make the lives of people better. Catherine McAleer; Helen Gillam, from St Mary’s School, Warwick; and Amy Davis, from St Patrick’s School, Mitchell, made the trip with the purpose of helping to set up a small school library for the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred ... Read More »
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