Matt Emerick

IT was a Christmas to remember for former Tamil refugee Redson Selvam as he joyfully reunited with his family after 12 long years of separation. After more than a decade of uncertainty and with the backing of Brisbane Catholics, Mr Selvam greeted his family at Brisbane International Airport on Christmas Day. On December 6 the […]

CULTURAL communitIes from across Brisbane archdiocese will have an integral role to play in the Corpus Christi solemnity celebrations.  On Sunday, June 11, the Feast of Corpus Christi, many communities will join with more than 4000 expected others Catholics making a public testimony of faith by walking in a Eucharistic procession through the streets of […]

THERE’S been a string of silver linings for the Redcliffe parish after a deluge caused extensive damage to their buildings last year. Holy Cross Parish priest in charge Fr Bob Harwood said two churches in the parish and the parish hall were hit by a major downfall early last year causing significant water damage. “We […]

A HIGH-level Australian Catholic delegation has met with former Manus Island asylum seekers and refugees now in Port Moresby, and heard shocking stories of their detention. “It was shameful to hear how our government has treated them on Manus Island and how some of them would feel safer in some totalitarian prison back home rather […]

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AUSTRALIAN Catholic University business student Mack Horton won Australia’s first gold medal of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Horton took out the 400m men’s freestyle swimming final in the early hours of last Sunday. He held off defending Olympic champion Sun Yang, from China, to become the sixth Australian to win gold in the 400m […]

HOLY Cross School, Wooloowin, has joined the yarn-bombing phenomena in support of refugees and asylum seekers. A colourful yarn-bombing art piece was “installed” on a tall ghost gum tree on the school’s front lawn to the delight of students. Titled Safe Harbour, the piece depicts a tumultuous ocean with a lighthouse providing welcome and refuge […]

ROCKHAMPTON Bishop Michael McCarthy took his chance recently to pay tribute to the Sisters of Mercy, saying he was he was “standing on holy ground” as he did. He was celebrating Mass at St Joseph’s Cathedral, Rockhampton, and marking the golden jubilees of four Rockhampton Sisters of Mercy – Sr Margaret Schofield, Sr Maria Jean […]

FAMILY man and teacher Clint McGoldrick is on a formation path that could lead to a first for Brisbane archdiocese. If he completes his formation program he will be the first Indigenous man ordained a deacon for the archdiocese. Mr McGoldrick, a program leader for ministry and service at St Patrick’s College, Shorncliffe, was instituted […]

IT’S a whole new world. Not sure about you but my collective household was pleased to turn the calendar to a new month this week. We don’t mind all this extra togetherness in today’s new world but we’d collectively decided that March went on for what seemed like an eternity and by the time the […]