Journalist EMILIE NG speaks with US author Emily Stimpson about her new book These Beautiful Bones: An Everyday Theology of the Body, and finds out that Theology of the Body is about much more than just sex.

National Evangelisation Teams (NET) Ministries Australia has appointed former NET Ministries Canada staff member Mark Doyle as its new executive director.

MOVED by the tragic stories reported during Schoolies Week on the Gold Coast, Brisbane's Faith on Tap team hope to encourage school leavers towards goodness and virtues at their next event in December.

YOUNG Catholics who served on NET Ministries Australia this year celebrate 25 years of sharing God's work in their lives with young people around the southern hemisphere.

LOBEZNO Meneses has walked through many doors in life, the most recent being the door into the Catholic Church.

NET Ministries Australia has launched a new team to service youth and students in the Brisbane archdiocese in 2014.

RESEARCH into teenage relationships will guide the development of a smart phone app that could minimise the mental and psychological effects of a break-up.

YOUNG Brisbane Catholics were told to speak up against the pill, condoms and other artificial contraceptives at last Monday's Faith on Tap.

BRISBANE East Deanery youth group The Blue has dedicated this month to teaching young people what the Church says about sex, love, and relationships.

FAITH-FILLED young people took up the challenge to rise above the allure of secular culture and live for God at this year's Ignite Conference.

A NEW one-hour film featuring five religious sisters from the United States hopes to foster more vocations worldwide to religious life.

BRISBANE Catholic women's movement Imagine celebrated their first anniversary last month.

AT Faith on Tap last Monday, former secretary for the University of Queensland Newman Society retold the controversial decision made by the UQ Student Union to ban the society's pro-life activism on the campus.

DO you ever find yourself reading the paper, watching the news, scrolling through the updates and scanning over the tweets, all the while thinking to yourself, "People should really try to be a bit more ... 'saintish'".

PUTTING his heart on the line has been a long-term side project for Canadian musician Joe Zambon.

A YOUNG mum who conceived her first child through a leading fertility care awareness program NaPro, hopes other women choose this Church-approved method and not IVF.

MORE than 100 young Catholics filled Sacred Heart Church Rosalie last Sunday night for the final night of the popular praise and worship youth event, Fuel.

Ignite - The Call"THE Ignite Conference is an experience of encounter with each other and an experience of encounter with God."

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This year, Emmanuel Community have announced St John the Evangelist and St Therese of Lisieux as patron saints for the Ignite Conference.

THE idea of a Vinnies Vamp Up dinner surfaced at the InsideOut 2013 youth retreat at Camp Bornhoffen in the Gold Coast hinterland.

THEY went. They prayed. They met the Pope. And that was it. Except, of course, we know it was so much more.

RIO DE JANEIRO: Pope Francis told young people God might have been trying to communicate something in forcing the World Youth Day vigil's change of venue from a huge field to a long, narrow stretch of sand and sea.

SITTING on the front steps of the parish hall in Lautoka, Fiji, a local woman approached me and proclaimed, "You must be Australian".

MORE than 1800 young Australian pilgrims and 16 bishops will participate in World Youth Day Rio from July 23-28 themed "Go and make disciples of all nations".