MILLIONS of people have been displaced as the conflict in Sudan escalates nearly three years on. About 33.7 million people would need humanitarian aid this year, a World Health Organisation...

MORE than 500 years after the first image of Senor Santo Nino, Holy Infant Jesus, was presented in the Philippines, the Filipino community in Brisbane is keeping tradition alive. The...

By Carol Glatz BAPTISING one’s children is as essential as providing them with food and clothing, Pope Leo XIV told parents. “Just as they received life from you, their parents,...

By Ashley Prisk JANUARY opens like a doorway into possibility, a threshold where routines return and hopes take shape. As the calendar resets, families rediscover the rhythm of mornings and...

POPE Leo XIV ended his first extraordinary consistory on Thursday calling for the College of Cardinals to act as a "community of faith" rather than a "mere body of experts"....

HOBART priest Fr Mark William Freeman has been appointed the ninth Bishop of Ballarat by Pope Leo XIV. Pope Leo announced the appointment in Rome on Wednesday night. Bishop-elect Freeman,...

More than 33.4 million pilgrims travelled to Rome to participate in the Jubilee of Hope, surpassing initial projections, the Vatican has said. Archbishop Rino Fisichella, pro-prefect of the Dicastery for...

RETIRED Brisbane priest Fr Ivan Hernon, 99, died last week on January 1. A message from vicar general Fr Peter Dillon said Fr Hernon was affectionately remembered in Cairns diocese,...

Pope Leo XIV has expressed deep concern over the situation in Venezuela and called for the country’s national sovereignty to be fully respected. His statement comes a day after a...

"I DIE the king's good servant, but God's first," go the famous last words of St Thomas More but last words might just become a thing of the past. A...