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The Feast of St Mark - Gospel writer and evangelist
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...
Read MoreOn Anzac Day we remember that life has victory over death
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...
Read MoreThe trip of a lifetime for Stanthorpe students visiting Anzac sites in France
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...
Read MoreI'm grateful my father made me study Latin - long may the classical languages continue
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...
Read MoreBroken Bay priest lifts up cancer diagnosis in prayer for vocations
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...
Read MoreMonica looks for the face of Jesus in everyone she meets
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,...
Read MorePope offers prayers for prisoners of war and victims of torture
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 ,...
Read MoreHundreds of mourners farewell Fr Marty Larsen at Funeral Mass
BRISBANE priest Fr Marty Larsen was remembered by family, friends, students, parishioners and colleagues as a warm priest who had a "great sense of fun and a wonderful spirituality" at...
Read MoreRetiring journalist Mark Bowling reflects on a turbulent decade reporting for the Church
IN a wooden chest of draws at home, I keep copies of The Catholic Leader. Over the last decade, I've accumulated deep piles of the newspaper that report and reflect...
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