Sister Pauline Marcella Coll was born on 16 January 1939 in Maryborough, Queensland. She was the youngest child of John and Evelyn (née Smith) Coll. Born to older parents, Sr Coll knew and admired her parents as they aged. She described her father as a gentle, strong man, well-educated and with a strong instinct for justice, and saw her mother as an extrovert, very sensitive, and as some...

Just as the title, Believe Me, was fading from the screen, there was a momentary after-image of just three letters from Believe: LIE. It was an indication of what was to come, a story that was based on deception – until the end, when all the edifying plot developments emerged.

As the lively profile of a wildly successful uber-geek, Steve Jobs is likely to appeal to many a youthful tech fan. Parents should be aware, however, that this is a morally complex life story – the computer pioneer and Apple, Inc co-founder died in 2011 at 56 – recounted with a vocabulary that’s anything but user-friendly for younger moviegoers.

High school football players battle racism on and off the field in Woodlawn, an entertaining and inspirational film that’s appropriate for most age groups.

It did not take long for the news of Monsignor Bryan Maurice Long’s passing to reverberate throughout the many parishes in the Diocese of Sandhurst where he had served.

The Pounamu Prophecy explores the universal issues of injustice, love and redemption. Of how an individual or race of people deal with the pain of betrayal.

Sister of Mercy Angela Reed PhD is hoping her ground-breaking book on the lives of 40 trafficked women in the Philippines sex trade will overturn widespread misconceptions about the insidious practice.

In August 1974, just as the Watergate scandal was approaching its climax with the announcement that President Richard Nixon would resign, a very different news story was competing for headlines.

Though the compelling sci-fi epic The Martian is an unusually long movie, what viewers of faith may cherish most about this masterful adventure is a single line of dialogue in the form of a three-word prayer.

The year 1983 saw the eruption of a 25-year civil war in in the island country of Sri Lanka that claimed the lives of an estimated 100,000 people. Fought by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), an organisation which sought to create an independent Tamil state called Tamil Eelam in the north and the east of the island, and the Sri Lankan government, the war ended with the defeat of LTTE in 2009.