CARDINAL Giorgio Marengo is walking in the footsteps of the early Church. Prior to 1992, Mongolia had no Catholic churches and certainly no Catholics. Then, missionaries arrived and for the last 32 years, the Church has grown a local congregation from...

DOZENS of school-aged kids were "powering up" with the Holy Trinity at a three-day Encounter Catholic Kids program at Twelve Apostles Church, Darra, last week. The program led by Evangelisation Brisbane's children and families team was designed to connect...

THE College of Cardinals gave a positive vote to the canonisation of Blessed Carlo Acutis after Pope Francis recognised last month a second miracle attributed to the millennial's intercession -- the final step before his canonisation date can be set...

BRISBANE Catholic Education religious education officer Dr Beth Nolen is transforming how students learn Scripture. Her seven years of research while completing a doctorate empowers educators to make Scripture 'come alive.' Using hooks like, 'I know what...

MENGISTU Hailu says life as an asylum seeker is like "walking in darkness" and the Romero Centre located in Dutton Park is "truly a beacon of light" for hundreds of children and adults. Mr Hailu came to Australia as an asylum seeker 23 years ago and is...

QUEENSLAND business and community leaders spent a cold June's night sleeping on cardboard at the 2024 Vinnies CEO Sleepout - raising nearly $2m for homelessness support in the process. On June 20, more than 500 participants traded their warm beds for...

NEWLY-ordained priest Fr Michael My Van Tran said he could feel God "very close" to him as he celebrated Mass with his family at his father's hospital bedside two weeks ago. Fr Tran's father has been in hospital battling cancer. "My father's health is...

THE APOSTLES. Pope Benedict XVI. Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, Our Sunday Visitor, Inc. Huntington, Indiana . Reviewed by Barbara Flynn THE influence of the theological writings by Pope Benedict XVI during his Papacy (2005 - 2013) and many...

CATHOLIC organisations across Australia have assessed and addressed $4.5 billion of procurement spending across 13 high-risk goods and services with 45,000 suppliers in its 2023 modern slavery reporting. The reporting done by the Australian Catholic Anti-slavery...

By Alessia Venier "REFRAIN from chewing the host, it's not a hamburger," I recall my Mum saying as she instructed us during a lesson of preparation for my First Holy Communion. My sister and I, at the ripe ages of seven and six, respectively, keenly took...