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I’ve spent the last couple of weeks in Poland. I gave a couple of university lectures and I witnessed the ongoing power and witness of Pope John Paul II whose life embodied the Polish challenge of faith and culture to the power of the state and foreign influences including...
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Each Pentecost, we remind ourselves that the images of God’s transforming Holy Spirit are wind and fire. That is the incredible personal presence we have inside each of us....
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A world-first immersive exhibition recreating the Sistine Chapel will open in St Mary’s Cathedral forecourt this winter, offering visitors an opportunity to experience one of the world’s most iconic sacred artworks without travelling to Rome. ...
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Let us go out and make disciples of all nations, acting not like a crusaders’ army but like gentle leaven in the dough....
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It is the antithesis of the Parable of the Good Samaritan. A man lay untended near a busy thoroughfare. A hundred thousand commuters stream past, unseeing. He dies. ...
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Today’s second reading from the first letter of Peter has us focus on hope. Peter says: ‘Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope......
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Jesus demonstrated that a life worth living was a life lived for others. He showed by his own example that the love given wholly for others even at the cost of one's life is the risk worth taking....
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Like the disciples on the road to Emmaus, in the midst of our debating and disappointment with the state of the world, we should extend hospitality to the stranger and share with each other those moments when our eyes are opened and when our hearts burn within us. Yes,...
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Australian Catholic University (ACU) has launched a new PhD scholarship to address a growing number of safeguarding challenges – including a large increase in student-on-student physical and sexual abuse in schools nationwide....