IN what is almost certainly his final Curia Mass before retirement, Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge shared his gratitude for the staff of the archdiocese and encouraged them on the Church's mission. Archbishop Coleridge, 76, is due to retire but is...

By Will Redmond ON Tuesday, May 13, the Marist Fathers, Marist Brothers, Old Boys of Ashgrove and Rosalie, along with staff and students from Marist College Ashgrove, bid farewell to Fr Jim Hargrave. A Marist man to his core, Fr Jim joined the Society...

REDCLIFFE Deacon Tim Shanahan was baffled at the number of people who called up to join their RCIA program in the last 12 months. "What's the Holy Spirit doing? They just keep coming," he said. At Easter, Deacon Shanahan and parish priest Fr Bob Harwood...

ENROLMENTS are up and costs are down in a swift reversal of financial prospects for Australia's largest publicly funded Australian university. Australian Catholic University was facing many challenges when vice-chancellor Zlatko Skrbis took the reins...

A BRISBANE-based Monash IVF clinic said human error led to a mix-up causing a mother to give birth to someone else's baby in early 2023. About 1 in 18 babies in Australia are born through IVF, but this was the first known instance of this kind of mistake...

POPE Leo XIV led his first Sunday recitation of the “Regina Coeli” prayer and urged all Catholics to pray for vocations, especially to the priesthood and religious life. Before the pope appeared on the central balcony of St Peter’s Basilica...

POPE Leo XIV has celebrated his first papal Mass joined by his cardinals in the Sistine Chapel today. He began his homily in English, where he once again spoke the words of the responsorial psalm: "I will sing a new song to the Lord because he has done...

AUGUSTINIANS around Australia are embracing the news of Pope Leo XIV's election with a mix of joy and admiration. Pope Leo is the first pope from the Order of Saint Augustine and the seventh from orders following the Rule of Saint Augustine. He served...

By Archbishop Mark Coleridge FROM some time back, I thought Cardinal Robert Prevost was a rough chance to be elected Pope. But I was surprised when I woke early to the news of his election as Pope Leo XIV. I was also delighted. He is US-born but...

CARDINAL Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops under Pope Francis, was elected the 267th pope and took the name Pope Leo XIV on May 8. He is the first North American to be elected pope and, before the conclave, was the...