The Holy See’s doctrine office will publish a new document next week on discerning Marian apparitions and other supernatural events. The Holy See Press Office announced yesterday that Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez, the prefect of the Dicastery...

QUEENSLAND Symphony Orchestra is bringing three performances of Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor to St Stephen's Cathedral as part of its 150th anniversary on May 10 and 11. The sold out events will open with French composer Lili Boulanger's triumphant...

By Terry Lees HOW can I describe how the Holy Spirit moves in my life? How can I describe the intangible? A young boy asked his father, "How can I believe in the Holy Spirit when I have never seen Him?" His father, an electrician, took the boy to a power...

THE spiritual practice of reparation “may be somewhat forgotten or wrongly judged obsolete” , but it is essential for the promotion of justice and healing, including on behalf of those who have suffered abuse in the church, Pope Francis said...

PROPOSED changes to the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Act would be a "betrayal of all faith communities" in the state, an open letter from Queensland Churches Together warns. Current Queensland law allows religious schools and organisations to make employment...

A MIX of mums, dads, lots of little children, university students, young adults, fellow religious and clergy filled up Holy Spirit Chapel to pray and listen to four visiting Sisters of Life at Australian Catholic University, Banyo, last Monday. Among...

AUSTRALIA'S Critical Care Research Group has announced a new partnership with Rome's Bambino Gesu Women's and Children's Hospital and Cairo's Human Fraternity Foundation to help support mothers, babies and pregnant women in Egypt . The partnership will...

MAY will always be a special month, the month that the Church dedicates to the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of God and our mother. The month is just the right time to renew the love that all of us who are baptised ought to profess for the woman whom God...

ON May 1, Catholics celebrate the feast day of St Joseph the Worker. A spiritual mentor of mine, St Joseph's work shares the same message my own mentors have taught me time and time again. Something Christians are called to live out, though sometimes...

AT the same time the Church was preparing to release a declaration on the horror of euthanasia, the Queensland premier was giving an award for excellence to the team that helped introduce voluntary assisted dying into the state. The Church declaration...