The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

THE great diversity of Queensland’s 306 Catholic schools will be the focus of this year’s Catholic Education Week, which runs from July 28 to August 3.The theme for this year’s celebrations is “Many Voices. One Spirit.” Queensland Catholic Education Commission executive director Dr Lee-Anne Perry said the theme reflected the broad range of social, economic, religious and cultural backgrounds of ... Read More »

INSPIRING young people of Brisbane archdiocese to reach out to the poor of the world is an early priority for Caritas Australia’s new diocesan director Andrew Knife. Mr Knife, who recently took up the director’s role, said he’d “love to see more youth engagement” with Caritas, the Church’s aid and development agency. “Traditionally organisations like Caritas and others that are ... Read More »

YOUNG Catholic Lachlan Dent lives his life by a simple ethos – give your time and talents to other people.  The 22-year-old recently was awarded the top prize at the north Queensland Volunteer awards in Townsville for his work as a youth representative on the St Vincent de Paul Society State Council. Mr Dent gives his time to helping disadvantaged ... Read More »

NATIONAL Evangelisation Teams Ministries, known as NET ministries, commissioned 48 young people to go out and spread the Good News to the people of Australia and, for the first time, South Africa. Rockhampton Bishop Michael McCarthy commissioned the NET missionaries at a Commissioning Mass at Sacred Heart Church, Paddington on Saturday, February 23. NET Ministries executive director Mark Doyle said ... Read More »

PILGRIMS who attended World Youth Day in Panama have returned cherishing the moment of sharing with hundreds of thousands of fellow pilgrims from around the globe and, for some, it proved a joyful turning point and a renewal of faith. “It was so great to see that no matter where you go you’ll always be welcomed by God’s love,” Brisbane ... Read More »

IN 1968 the American artist Andy Warhol gave birth to the idea that in the future everyone would be world-famous for 15 minutes.  The prediction must have been inconceivable at the time. There was no Internet, and for the most part Australians led unremarkable lives. Fast-forward 50 years and Andy Warhol’s prediction has more or less come true – at ... Read More »

YOUNG Catholic delegates have returned from a week-long meeting in Rome with Pope Francis, energised, enthused and calling for a more transparent and “authentic” Church. “Just for us to be heard, and to speak our minds within the Church and to get feedback and a response from an older generation that was ‘Oh, yes, we’ll listen to that and we’d ... Read More »

YOUNG people living in Australia have positive experiences of the Church in youth groups, festivals, Mass or liturgies, and outreach, but still feel dismissed for being “too young” or “too Catholic”, according to findings from a national youth survey. Youth ministers from across Australia at a two-day research seminar in Brisbane last week heard the results of the national youth ... Read More »

GOLD Coast youth leader Stephanie Santos wants to tell the world’s bishops that despite a sharp drop in the number of young Catholics at Mass, youth are hungry for the truth. Miss Santos has been invited to attend the Vatican’s pre-synod meeting in Rome next month, along with Melbourne Chaldean woman Angela Markas, who will represent Australia on behalf of ... Read More »