2024年10月31日 · LUCE is an animated mascot clad in a yellow raincoat and mud-caked green boots and only days after she was announced, she’s already weathered her first storms in online forums and social media feeds. The cartoon mascot was launched by Church officials on Monday as the face of the Church’s upcoming Year of Jubilee 2025. […]

2024年12月8日 · The apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes has since become a major site for Catholic pilgrimage. The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception is a time to celebrate the great joy of God’s gift to humanity in Mary, and to recognise with greater clarity, the truth that each and every human being has been created by God to fulfil …

2024年10月7日 · POPE Francis has named 21 news cardinals including one for Australia – Bishop Mykola Bychok of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Eparchy of Saints Peter and Paul in Melbourne. The announcement will make Cardinal-Designate Bychok, 44, Australia’s only cardinal and the youngest cardinal. Pope Francis made the announcement from a window overlooking St Peter’s Square after […]

2024年3月6日 · “THE vision has to become action” – Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge said, holding the Laudato Si’ Action Plan 2024-2026 in his hand at its launch at the Francis Rush Centre today. He said there had been “so much talk” from politicians and decision makers, but “talk is not enough”. “We have to listen to the […]

2024年10月29日 · ON October 28, the Church celebrates the feast of St Jude, also known as Thaddeus, one of Jesus’ 12 apostles. Historians account the Letter of Jude, one of the shortest books of the Bible, to his work, and he is often depicted with a club or axe. This symbolises his martyrdom, which was likely in […]

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2024年10月18日 · ST Luke contributed more to the New Testament than any other single author, offering us the most detailed account of Jesus’ life and the early Church. He is also credited with founding Christian iconography, worked as a physician, and was a close companion of St Paul until his death. St Luke is believed to have […]

2024年4月5日 · WHETHER you are a parent of a child to be baptised or a recently-named godparent, you are probably full of questions about godparents – this explainer has got you covered. First of all, being named a godparent is an incredible privilege, Evangelisation Brisbane’s children and families associate director Chantale Wilson says. “It is a way […]

2023年8月22日 · The Catechism, in the section on the Holy Spirit in the liturgy, says of it: “The Epiclesis (“invocation upon”) is the intercession in which the priest begs the Father to send the Holy Spirit, the Sanctifier, so that the offerings may become the body and blood of Christ and that the faithful, by receiving them, may themselves become a living offering to God” (CCC 1105).

2023年8月4日 · By Fr John Flader With the Synod of Bishops meeting on synodality fast approaching, I have been speaking with a group of friends and none of us is clear as to what the term synodality actually means. Can you help us? TO answer your question I will draw mainly on the International Theological Commission’s document […]