WE have all seen movies where a character sits in an ornate confessional and quips with the priest on the other side of the grille, and while it is a...

ON April 25, Catholics usually celebrate the feast of St Mark the Evangelist, whose attributed writings make up one of the four gospel accounts. However, this year it was moved...

This is Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge’s homily from Mass on Anzac Day WARFARE has changed dramatically in the span of time we remember on Anzac Day. Perhaps the greatest emblem...

IT will be an Anzac Day like no other before. Only ten days before, 36 students from St Joseph's School in Stanthorpe, within Toowoomba Diocese, left for a first-time ever...

By Jo Hayes A SWELTERING summer afternoon in Brisbane, in the late 1990s. School has finished for the day. The school grounds are unusually silent. And I am sitting in...

BROKEN Bay priest Fr Sam French, who has a large online following, revealed yesterday that he had been diagnosed with cancer and had undergone a successful surgery. The priest who...

Two-Minute Homily by Fr John Fowles for the Fifth Sunday of Easter 2024. “The Holy Spirit comes forth from the nature of Christ and into our nature through the sacraments...

MONICA Molloy loves her neighbours. She can name just about every person in her street, the names of their children and a little tidbit about each of them. If pushed,...

POPE Francis has appealed to countries at war to release prisoners and offered special prayers for those who have endured torture. At the end of his weekly general audience ,...