Noel Debien

  • Bishop Vincent Long on Sunday Nights on ABC Radio

    Updated on 16 May 2016 The new Bishop of Parramatta, Most Rev Vincent Long Van Nguyen OFM Conv, was interviewed by ABC journalist Noel Debien during the plenary meeting of Australia’s Catholic bishops in Sydney last week. The interview went to air on Sunday 15 May 2016 on ABC...
  • Why Catholics can’t sing

    By Noel Debien, ABC Read the story here: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/earshot/why-catholics-can’t-sing/6978078 Since Vatican 2, 50 years ago, Catholics have been arguing over “throwing the baby out with the bath-water”. Is the Latin mass a baby, or is it “bath-water”? Is a ‘church choir’ the baby; or is it bath-water?  The so-called “Liturgy...