HOMILY AT THE SOLEMN PONTIFICAL MASS FOR THE REPOSE OF THE SOUL OF POPE EMERITUS BENEDICT XVI The Cathedral of St Stephen 7 January 2023 Readings: 1 John 5:14-21; John...

The Cathedral of St Stephen Thirty years ago the poet and song-writer, Leonard Cohen, released a song called Anthem that became one of his best known.  It contained a line...

The Cathedral of St Stephen “Church bells pealed, long separated family members and friends fell into each other’s arms and complete strangers embraced”: so wrote the New York Times in...

Christianity can be described in many different ways.  In the first of his Encyclical Letters, way back in 1979, the then new Pope John Paul II offered one remarkable description. ...

Christianity has been an undeniably creative power through history, but not always.  At times Christianity has identified not with the victim but against the victim or with the victimiser.  The...

The Cathedral of St Stephen, Brisbane Olives are everywhere in the Mediterranean world, and the human communities which gather round the Middle Sea float on a sea of olive oil....

The Cathedral of St Stephen 22 February 2022 The appointment of Tim Norton as bishop was a surprise to many, including himself.  So too was the prophet Jeremiah’s call, not...

It is not by chance that we install the fifth Chancellor of Australian Catholic University on this day, 11 February.  It happens to be the feast of Our Lady of...

THE CATHEDRAL OF ST STEPHEN A great promise had been made to Mary by the angel Gabriel: she was to be the mother of the royal messiah – she a...