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Catholic nuns, seminarians and laypeople have marched on the streets to pray for peace as pro-democracy protests intensify in Myanmar three weeks after the February 1 coup. Nearly 1,000 Catholics, mostly young people,

BRISBANE’S Catholic population will grow a hundredfold by Easter as 117 men and women marked their second major milestone in the journey to becoming Catholic. On Sunday 1, 117 Catechumens – young, mature and from diverse backgrounds – celebrated the annual Rite of Election liturgy at Brisbane’s St Stephen’s Cathedral.

English Catholic priest, a distant relative of Britain’s Prince William, is on the path to sainthood. Pope Francis has approved a decree recognising the “heroic virtues” of George Spencer, a son of the 2nd Earl of Spencer and a priest of the Passionist religious order who lived from 1799 to …

Concerned Catholics Canberra Goulburn last August challenged the President of the forthcoming Fifth Plenary Council of Australia (PC), Archbishop Tim Costelloe of Perth, to avoid a breach of faith with the Australian Catholic community.

BRISBANE priest Fr Pat Dowd, described as a “real friend” and a humble and dedicated parish priest who served across the Brisbane Archdiocese, was farewelled at a moving funeral Mass in St Stephen’s Cathedral today.

THE Australian Catholic Bishops’ have issued a pastoral letter urging Church schools to increase the numbers of Catholic students and be “truly Catholic in their identity and life”. As Australian Catholic educators mark the 200th anniversary of the nation’s Catholic schooling,

CATHOLIC nuns, priests and laypeople have joined protests in Buddhist-majority Myanmar following the coup on . Hundreds of Catholics, including dozens of nuns, marched on the streets of Yangon on 4, and recited prayers and the rosary.

A Tamil family seeking asylum in Australia will remain on Christmas Island, denied from returning to their Queensland country home of Biloela, after a Federal Court ruling today. Today the full Federal Court upheld a previous ruling relating to the immigration status of their youngest child – preventing the family …

WHEN Benedictine Father Robert Nixon gave up his music career in 2013 to become a monk in Western Australia, he was resigned to the fact that he might never perform in public again. The Mt Isa-born pianist and former music teacher is a Benedictine priest in Australia’s only monastic town,

Pope Francis has used his message for Lent 2021 to called on Catholics to “experience Lent with Love” by extending the hand of charity to those affected by coronavirus. “To experience Lent with love means caring for those who suffer or feel abandoned and fearful because of the Covid-19 pandemic,