Tag: Church
Dr Philippa Martyr: If we’re different, others will want what we...
If we’re different, others will want what we possess
Recently I said that you can’t be holy and live exactly like pagans at the same...
The Passion and The Joy
Combining Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate to celebrate the Passion and the Joy of Easter in concert at St Peter’s Church, Surry Hills.
It was...
Simcha Fisher: Making the church in our image
Power grabs in the church are not a new problem
The National Catholic Reporter has published a strange story about what happens to a parish...
Do you pray for our priests?
Celibacy - freely embraced - helps create really good, fatherly and even emotionally available men
When was the last time you prayed for priests, or...
The Good Charities Guide 2020
The Good Charities Guide
'The Good Charities Guide' is for readers located across Sydney, NSW and interstate who are looking to support a suitable charity....
Philippa Martyr: Women, equality and the Church
The Church is either human and democratic or like the Blues Brothers – on a mission from God
My last piece on women deacons caused...
Setting the world on fire: life in the Holy Spirit
It is not sufficient for us to confine our Christian life to the pews of the parish Church and a scattering of prayers in the home, without commitment to the issues of our time and the presenting challenges of the world
The Church: Dwelling Place of the Holy Spirit
Not only does the Spirit make the Church one, it also leads the Church to be faithful, in ever deeper adherence to Christ.
We need the Mass even more
A week ago, my friend and colleague Peter Holmes published an article ‘Missing Mass? Don’t complain…’ Its focus is not so much on those...
Big questions: the Pandemic, our Mission and the New Evangelisation
this cataclysm has removed from our path artificial obstacles to new endeavours and underscored the part each of us can play as the baptised in the rebuilding of the new world that awaits
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Students to go to the margins in new model
The Australian Catholic University has announced an exciting new partnership with the Archdiocese of Sydney’s welfare agency, CatholicCare aimed at embedding Catholic social teaching...
