Tag Archives: Roman Catholic Church

A DECISION to extend or to end Greater Brisbane’s three-day coronavirus lockdown will be made tomorrow morning, following “encouraging” testing figures overnight. It means Easter plans remain in the balance,

WITH Greater Brisbane now in a three-day lockdown, Brisbane Archdiocese has issued new directives for Holy Week, including livestream Masses. During a media conference this morning Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said eight new community transmitted cases of COVID-19 were recorded overnight,

AT least 15 people were killed and more than 500 injured in the massive fires that swept through Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh on March 22. A further 400 people are still unaccounted for. The scale and intensity of the fire was unprecedented in the camps,

CARITAS Australia is supporting Church and emergency workers in Bangladesh, after a massive fire swept through a Rohingya refugee camp on Monday, destroying thousands of refugee shelters, health centres and other facilities.

Catholics, priests and laity, are increasingly wanting renewal and reform of their Church to overcome dysfunctional governance and leadership failures, particularly reflected in the scandals of clerical child sexual abuse and its cover-ups.

POPE Francis is encouraging Catholics to support and defend families by making an effort to be close to them in the struggles and joys of their daily lives. “We are called to accompany, to listen, to bless the journey of families; not only to trace the …

The Catholic education sector has welcomed a state government decision to review sexual education in schools, particularly teaching sexual consent. “All Catholic schools aim to support students in ways that teach them to build and maintain respectful relations,

By Emilie Ng YEARS ago I confessed to a male friend that I was going to be a stay at home mum.In my mind, that man – a Catholic – was going to applaud me in a way that would lead to wedding bells. Instead,

CATHOLIC Psychiatric Pastoral Care (CPPC) has provided a unique ministry in Brisbane, caring for people with a mental health issue, for more than 30 years. Now a new chapter in the ongoing life of this ministry has begun in the heart of the inner city.

POPE Francis summarized his “pilgrimage of faith and penitence” to Iraq in a prayer: “If God is the God of life – for so he is – then it is wrong for us to kill our brothers and sisters in his name. “If God is the God of peace – for so …