This is an edited version of the homily of parish priest Carmelites of Mary Immaculate Father Biju Thomas at the Funeral Mass of well-known Aspley parishioner Claude Gonsalves. Mr Gonsalves died on April 10 aged 76. CLAUDE Gonsalves was a devoted sacristan,...

A POLICE investigation has been launched after a fire caused the “complete destruction” of Mary Immaculate Church building in Blackwater. On April 28 at 3am, emergency services attended a “significant fire” at the church near the...

THIS year marks 25 years since the first National Count of Attendance by the Church in Australia. Throughout May, parishes across the Archdiocese of Brisbane will conduct a count for the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference's National Centre for Pastoral...

BRISBANE Archbishop Shane Mackinlay blessed students, staff, families, supporters and founders of the newly-opened St John Henry Newman College, Tarragindi, at an opening Mass today. The college, named after the 19th-century theologian and saint, launched...

By Terry Lees ONE of the most compelling resurrection stories in the Gospels is the account of the two disciples walking the road to Emmaus. It is a story filled with disappointment, confusion and dashed hopes -- and yet it becomes a story of awakening,...

PREP teacher Ora Duffley has seen first-hand how holiness is found in daily acts of love and service. She spent two weeks in a community in Vanimo, Papua New Guinea during the Easter break. “What I saw in the children, their villages, the homes,...

A DESECRATED statue of Jesus has been replaced by the Italian battalion of United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon along with the residents of a Catholic village in southern Lebanon. Two Israeli soldiers have been placed in military detention for 30 days,...

By EWTN News POPE Leo XIV recently completed an 11-day trip visiting the faithful in Algeria, Cameroon, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea. With stops in 11 cities across those countries, the Holy Father met with the youth, political leaders, prisoners, families...

SOME may think that the battlefields of the Somme, Vietnam and beyond were just about despair beyond words and that suffering had the last word. Never. To give into hopelessness would be to fail to honour...

By Deacon Gary Stone "...On April 25, I will thank God for the good we have done. I will pray for a peace in the world and amongst Australians, then along with veteran colleagues, we will march through Brisbane as Veterans Peacemakers, hoping our witness...