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MONICA Molloy loves her neighbours. She can name just about every person in her street, the names of their children and a little tidbit about each of them. If pushed,...

POPE Francis has appealed to countries at war to release prisoners and offered special prayers for those who have endured torture. At the end of his weekly general audience ,...

BRISBANE priest Fr Marty Larsen was remembered by family, friends, students, parishioners and colleagues as a warm priest who had a "great sense of fun and a wonderful spirituality" at...

IN a wooden chest of draws at home, I keep copies of The Catholic Leader. Over the last decade, I've accumulated deep piles of the newspaper that report and reflect...

SYDNEY Archbishop Anthony Fisher has urged peace in the aftermath of the attack on an Assyrian orthodox church on Monday night. Archbishop Fisher has said Sydney faithful deserved to "worship...

FRANCISCAN Father Mario Debattista sees the heart of the Church at work in the everyday faith of ordinary people. Fr Debattista is back in Australia for a month's rest after...

SYDNEY has been rocked by a second violent event in under a week, this time at Christ the Good Shepherd Church, an Assyrian community in Wakeley. Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel...

POPE Francis will travel to the southeast Asian countries of Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Singapore later this year. The 11-day multi-country voyage from September 2-13 will be...

NEWLY finished icons of Saints Mary Magdalene, Peter, Mary Mother of God, John the Baptist, Paul and Mary of the Cross now light the way to the heart of the...

FAITH leaders have expressed their sorrow at the shocking knife attack that killed six people at a Sydney shopping centre last Saturday. Five women and a male security guard were...