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WELLINGTON University Professor Neil Dodgson delivered a sobering message about the capabilities of artificial intelligence and how Christians should respond to the emerging technology at the Brisbane Catholic Professionals lunch yesterday. Prof Dodgson walked the group through an explanation of the history of AI, which stretched back much further than the advent of ChatGPT i...

POPE Leo XIV, recovering from lung cancer surgery in Rome, sent a request for prayers to participants in a Vatican conference. “As you know, I have been unable to be among you during these days,” Pope Leo wrote in the October 14 message to clergy members and Catholics. “I thank you warmly for your prayers […]

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By Terry Lees ONE of the most radical, tender and confronting teachings in the whole Gospel is found in Matthew 18:1–14. Jesus doesn’t simply praise children. He uses them as the measure of greatness in the Kingdom: “the one who makes himself as little as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of […]

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A NEW Church-led sanctuary in Southport is tackling Gold Coast homelessness head-on.  Brisbane Archbishop Shane Mackinlay blessed and opened Philermos House, which was the product of a partnership between Southport parish and the Order of Malta.  Among the supporters at the official opening was local parishioner Irene Cooper, originally from Malta and part of the […]

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POPE Leo XIV underwent a successful surgery to remove the lower lobe of his right lung after doctors confirmed a diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma, the Vatican announced on Tuesday evening. “The Holy Father underwent thoracic surgery as scheduled,” the Holy See Press Office said in a statement concerning the operation performed Tuesday afternoon at Romeʼs […]

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