Join The Catholic Leader team as we dive into a word each week that highlights our faith. The word this week is - Church. WHEN we say, "Church", we can be talking about many different things - we might be talking about a building, a group of people, a...

INGHAM residents are praying they avoid a repeat of the floods that hit in February as the Bureau of Meteorology records high rainfall totals across North Queensland. Townsville Bishop Tim Harris was in contact with the local parish this morning, where...

BISHOP George Kolodziej has been ordained and installed as the fifth Bishop of Bunbury. Bishop Kolodziej was ordained and installed at St Patrick's Cathedral, Bunbury, Western Australia yesterday - the Solemnity of St Joseph. "Over the past few months,...

MORE young people are discovering the healing ministry of the Church as Reco Rally organisers prepare for large numbers at Lourdes Hill College next Friday night. Archdiocesan Ministries youth associate director Nattasha Mierendorf said young people "got...

BRISBANE Archbishop Mark Coleridge is encouraging everyone to unite against poverty as he launched Project Compassion for 2025 at St Stephen's Cathedral on March 4. The launch brought together more than 500 students from across Brisbane Catholic Education...

QUEENSLAND'S bishops have appointed Madeline Brennan as the inaugural chair of Catholic Education Queensland, which will succeed the Queensland Catholic Education Commission next January. Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge said Ms Brennan's "outstanding...

THIS Lent, sales of The Way by St Josemaria Escriva have skyrocketed thanks to Hallow's Lent Pray40 Challenge, with listeners diving deeper into the writings of the Spanish-born saint in his most well-known book. The Way reached the number one spot on...

ST Patrick built the foundation of Christianity in Ireland and set an example for many of the Church’s future saints. St Patrick is said to have been born around 389 AD in Britain. Captured by Irish raiders when he was about 16, St Patrick was taken...

THE Vatican press office has released the first photo of Pope Francis since he was hospitalised in mid-February. The image shows him concelebrating Mass that morning in the chapel of his suite of rooms at Rome's Gemelli hospital. The Mass also was...

CHURCH leaders have welcomed the Crisafulli Government's decision to pause the implementation of Labor's changes to the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 to allow "further consultation and policy work". A government statement said the changes were "pushed...