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Gifted US preacher bound for Brisbane (Top Stories)

Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +1000

IT'S a "must do" for all, no matter whether you are Catholic, Christian or a non-believer.

Flooding problematic for new school year (Top Stories)

Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +1000

THE 2012 Catholic school year was off to a soggy and chaotic start as heavy rain cut roads and inundated school property throughout Queensland and in northern NSW.

Bishops point to dignity for asylum seekers (Top Stories)

Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +1000

THE Australian Catholics Bishops Commission for Justice, Ecology and Development has called for a common vision among political parties in the approach to asylum seekers.

Contraceptive decision decried (World News)

Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +1000

ROME (Zenit.org): The federal government decision last week on insurance coverage for contraceptives in the United States has been widely condemned.

All have a missionary vocation: Pope (World News)

Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +1000

VATICAN CITY (Zenit.org): Benedict XVI says that every component of the Church should feel bound by Christ's mandate to preach the Gospel, so that He is proclaimed everywhere.

Time to stand up for your beliefs (Opinion)

Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +1000

WE may have a new prime minister this year.

Standing up for the unborn (Features)

Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +1000

Emily's Voice is a pro-life organisation that represents the 80,000 plus "little Australians" each year who won't be given the chance to experience life outside the womb. SELINA VENIER spoke to their new CEO Paul O'Rourke

The words Our Saviour gave us (Liturgy)

Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +1000

Question: I was under the impression that the Australian Church had permission to retain the former chant setting of the Our Father, but I discovered to my dismay that it is not included with the alternative tones in the back of the Missal (pp1501-2). I assumed that it would be in there somewhere but cannot find it. Is this a subtle way of weaning us off it?

Retreat offers expert advice (Schools)

Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +1000

STAFF at St Columban's College kicked off the school year on a high following a two-day retreat that focused on the theme "Liberation in the Digital Age".

Students launch asylum seekers campaign (Youth)

Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +1000

RESPECT is the keyword in the latest Young Christian Student's (YCS) campaign.

A family life full of little blessings (People)

Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +1000

IMAGINE awaiting the birth of an eleventh sibling and twelfth child.

Rekindling delight in the Muppets (Reviews)

Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +1000

THE MUPPETS: Starring Jason Segel, Amy Addams, Chris Cooper, Alan Arkin, Jack Black and Kermit, Miss Piggy and the Muppets. Dirceted by James Bobin. Rated G.

Rallying point (Top Stories)

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +1000

CALLS are going out to Catholic doctors, dentists, lawyers, accountants and other business people to donate their services to clients of local crisis pregnancy counsellors in a bid to reduce abortions.

138,000 students go back to school (Top Stories)

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +1000

STUDENTS and adults covered new schoolbooks, sharpened pencils and prepared lunches to welcome in the new school year last Tuesday.

Cruise ship chaplains offer a valuable ministry (Top Stories)

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +1000

THE value of cruise ship chaplains was highlighted during the recent Costa Concordia disaster, Apostleship of the Sea (AOS) Australian national director Peter Owens said.

One person can make a difference (Features)

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +1000

Teaching has taken on a new dimension for Susan Bentley and her students at All Hallows' School, Brisbane, since she organised her own immersion experience at an orphanage and high school in Cambodia. ROBIN WILLIAMS reports

Café for worms opens (Schools)

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +1000

OUR Lady of the Rosary School, Kenmore, has set up a worm café to help make the school more sustainable.

Sr Rita's life is devoted to the care of others (People)

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +1000

ONE of the first things Daughter of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Sister Rita Grunke will do when she arrives back in South Sudan is find a village that needs a water well.

Skewed outlook on life (Opinion)

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +1000

WIDELY promoted as a generous philanthropist, Bill Gates claimed as a great advance for humanity in a recent ABC TV 7.30 interview that millions of the world's children who previously starved to death (or would have) are now saved.

Destruction and demolition (World News)

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +1000

(ACN): THE Punjab government in Pakistan stands accused of "brutal injustice" for sending bulldozers into a Church-owned site and demolishing homes for poor, elderly and homeless people, a school for poor girls and a church.

Cardinal demands equal treatment for Catholics (World News)

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +1000

CATHOLICS in Bosnia-Herzegovina should be treated equally, according to Cardinal Vinko Puljic, archbishop of Sarajevo

The Father's transforming power (Youth)

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +1000

GREATER life in the Church is being witnessed as annual events like Emmanuel Youth Outreach's Zero Gravity continue to draw teenagers from near and far.

A stand-out film of the year (Reviews)

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +1000

THE DESCENDANTS. Starring George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard, Robert Forster, and Patricia Hastie. Directed by Alexander Payne. Rated M (Mature themes and coarse language). 115 min.

Hope blooms out of flood despair (Top Stories)

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +1000

THE blooming of a rose, the popping of a champagne cork, the unexpected kindness of a stranger.

Prayers and tears as victims remember (Top Stories)

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +1000

"THERE are very few 'pity parties'...just people getting on with the job as best they can with what they've got."