We’re celebrating Word of God Sunday today.  The rest of the Church observed it at the end of January, some weeks ago, but we were busy...

If we went into a Catholic church in Munich in the 1940s, we’d see the statues of Mary and Jesus wearing yellow armbands with the Star of...

Shortly after arriving at Sydney Cove in 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip took the oaths of office to become our first Governor.  One of them...

At some point in your life, Jesus is going to rub you the wrong way.  It might be something that he says or does, or something that he...

There’s a question thrown up by the evangelists to resolve: was the revelation after Jesus’ Baptism physical and public, or not?  Did it...

To each and to all, a very merry Christmas.  I hope and pray the joy of this feast overruns you, to sweep you up in the Good News: the...

John the Baptist didn’t fulfil his vocation.  The job he had been born to do went undone.  He was a priest on both sides of his family. ...

It’s a strange thing St Paul has asked us to do: pray with thanksgiving.  He might mean that we’re always to remember to say thank you to...

It’s thought that John the Baptist entered the desert as a hermit after the death of his parents.  We recall how Elizabeth and Zechariah...

All this talk again about the end of the world can seem quite far fetched and far off, unless we put ourselves into it.  The Lord has...

We have before us the problem of unfulfilled prophecy: the Son of Man didn’t return in the lifetimes of the first generation of...