Passages like this Gospel reading are sometimes troubling for us who hold up the Mother of God as the exemplar of faith.  Why, only...

Archbishop Anthony Fisher, OP gave the Centenary Address on Wednesday 15 May. We are presenting it in short excerpts in The Dominican over c

On Wednesday 15 May, the Centenary Address was delivered by the Most Reverend Anthony Fisher, OP, the ninth Archbishop of Sydney. The...

We know the Lord’s Eucharistic words by heart.  We’ve heard them countless times.  If one was accidentally left out or, to his shame and...

Years ago, probably long before our memories start, we were baptized.  Our parents brought us to the church all dressed in white – much...

(From an Antiphonary: Initial G[loria tibi Trinitas] c. 1410)

Pentecost is surely a threshold set before us by the risen Lord, which each of us must cross in turn.  Certainly, the risen Lord shows...