AUSTRALIANS are pausing for a moment of silence and paying their respects in small ways on today's National Day of Mourning for the victims of the Bondi terror attack. The Islamic State-inspired attack left 15 people dead and 40 wounded...

MORE than 200 Maryborough families have found themselves in a better position ahead of the 2026 school year through Centacare's School Savvy pop-up shop. Families were welcomed in a safe, respectful and community-led space, with items available for gold...

MATER announced on Monday it is purchasing Healthscope's Gold Coast Private Hospital. The acquisition comes after Healthscope was placed in receivership in May last year with $1.6 billion of debt. Mater board chair Patrick Brady said the purchase would...

POPE Leo XIV has proclaimed a Franciscan Jubilee Year to mark 800 years since the death of St Francis of Assisi and Brisbane’s Franciscans say it is a great response to renewing peace in a troubled world. The Special Year of St Francis was inaugurated...

BRISBANE priest Fr Peter Casey has died aged 81 on Monday night. Fr Casey served in the parishes of Lutwyche and Annerley Ekibin as an assistant priest, administrator for Buranda and parish priest of Ipswich, Cannon Hill, and Camp Hill. He also served...

BRISBANE Archbishop Shane Mackinlay encouraged leaders of Queensland's new peak Catholic education body to keep the young people in their care at centre of their policy and procedures. Archbishop Mackinlay blessed and installed the members of the board...

PEAK Catholic education groups are challenging a new report on the fee structure in faith schools across the country. Futurity Investment's recently released Cost of Education Report 202C said Catholic schooling was now costing on average $247,174 over...

MILLIONS of people have been displaced as the conflict in Sudan escalates nearly three years on. About 33.7 million people would need humanitarian aid this year, a World Health Organisation report said. Women and children were facing the gravest...

MORE than 500 years after the first image of Senor Santo Nino, Holy Infant Jesus, was presented in the Philippines, the Filipino community in Brisbane is keeping tradition alive. The Sinulog celebration at The Cathedral of St Stephen will mark its second...

By Carol Glatz BAPTISING one’s children is as essential as providing them with food and clothing, Pope Leo XIV told parents. “Just as they received life from you, their parents, now they receive the meaning to live it: faith,” he said,...