Tag: Australia

Australia needs signs of hope! One sign is the dynamic witness given by priests, consecrated men and women, and lay faithful working together for...

Today I come to fulfill a promise I made to the people of this diocese who contacted me from every corner of the Diocese...

I spent some time listening to the livestream of the Plenary Council session of Wednesday 6 October, where small groups shared their three minutes...

From a secular point of view, the Catholic Church in Australia has outlived its usefulness. Health care for the poor, schools in the bush,...

Addressing you from the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. Considering the questions presented in the agenda centred on the Church’s ministry...

Greetings from Darug Country. In 2015 Pope Francis wrote his encyclical Laudato Si', it is in my view prophetic. The science is clear, in coming years...

In the voices of the Plenary members, I hear the continued growth in our awareness of how terrible was the violent and insensitive crimes...

On principle, there is no profession that women cannot carry out, for in the words of Edith Stein, “no woman is solely a ‘woman,’...

The Church and her faith moves into the future by way of the family, the family being integral to God's plan of redemption. For...

Two basic rules on this subject. First: liturgy is the life and heart of the Catholic Church, particularly for the Eastern Churches. It is the...