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 International Tour with six staff members and suitcases filled with Australian...

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 a stifling hot classroom, sorting out my Latin declensions. I wasn't being punished...

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 is known for his comedic and informative videos, which have raked in millions...

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, she could probably name everyone in the Nundah-Banyo parish too. She loves to...

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 , Pope Francis said that he knew “our thoughts, all of ours, go at this...

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 a Funeral Mass at St Stephen's Cathedral yesterday, April 18. Brisbane...

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 on one of the most testing of times for the Church. Some could argue the last decade has...

SYDNEY Archbishop Anthony Fisher has urged peace in the aftermath of the attack on an Assyrian orthodox church on Monday night. Archbishop Fisher has said Sydney faithful deserved to "worship without fear," as tensions remained high after a week...

FRANCISCAN Father Mario Debattista sees the heart of the Church at work in the everyday faith of ordinary people. Fr Debattista is back in Australia for a month's rest after serving as a missionary priest in Juba, South Sudan, for the last 14 months...

SYDNEY has been rocked by a second violent event in under a week, this time at Christ the Good Shepherd Church, an Assyrian community in Wakeley. Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was allegedly stabbed by a 15-year-old male. The talk was live-streamed...