The Catholic Leader - Keeping Faith with You
The Catholic Leader is an Australian award-winning Catholic newspaper that has been published by the Archdiocese of Brisbane since 1929. Our journalism seeks to provide a full, accurate …
The story of St Francis and the Sultan - The Catholic Leader
Oct 4, 2024 · IN 1219, at the height of the Fifth Crusade, St Francis travelled to the Middle East with the aim of converting the Sultan to Christianity and ending the bloodshed. The battle lines …
Clerical dress or not? - The Catholic Leader
May 27, 2014 · By Deacon Anthony Gooley I HAVE been asked if a deacon may wear clerical dress, by which the person asking the question meant a Roman collar. Before attempting an …
Pondering the birth of Christ - The Catholic Leader
Dec 11, 2013 · But God’s ways are not man’s ways, and God clearly wanted it to be that way in order to teach us something. From the humble circumstances of Christ’s birth we learn, in the …
Retired Supreme Court judge is Church council’s new chair
Jun 6, 2014 · FORMER judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia Neville Owen is the new chair of the Catholic Church’s Truth, Justice and Healing Council (TJHC). Australian Catholic …
What is lust? - The Catholic Leader
Jun 13, 2014 · Pope St John Paul II, in one of his “Theology of the Body” addresses, spoke about how lust reduces the natural attraction of men for women, and vice versa, to an attraction …
True peace is found gazing into Christ’s crib, Toowoomba bishop …
Dec 26, 2024 · ONCE again, we gaze into the Christmas crib and are amazed by its simplicity. It is easy to forget that this tiny baby also cried as all babies do. Baby tears are real and later the …
Story of the Magi shows how God turns wandering into journeying ...
Dec 25, 2024 · CHRISTMAS isn’t just about the birth of the Child who is God-with-us. It’s certainly about that, but it’s also about the human response to the birth of the Child. That’s why the …
Sharing the light of Christ - The Catholic Leader
Jan 22, 2015 · By Brian Moore. Helping hand: Let us pray, asking Jesus to guide us by the light of His saving truth.” IN Luke 8:16-18, Jesus tells us, “No one after lighting a lamp covers it with a …
Christmas is a time to give thanks for the peace we enjoy in …
Dec 27, 2024 · By Rockhampton Bishop Michael McCarthy. MY mind goes back to this time, two years ago when I visited the Holy Lands. The diocesan pilgrimage began in Jordan where we …