I first met Gerald O’Collins in 1971 when I was a seminarian at Corpus Christi College Glen Waverley in what was then called first year Theology and he was a...

Mary MacKillop was by all accounts a peaceful woman who, it has been said, “respected and loved people even when they were at their worst”. Yet she was no stranger...

It was Winston Churchill who said, “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us”. He echoed the words of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, “We create our buildings and then...

Warfare has changed dramatically in the span of time we remember on Anzac Day.  Perhaps the greatest emblem of that change was the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima...

A large stone was rolled across the entrance of the new rock-hewn tomb where Jesus was laid. It was the custom to seal a tomb of this kind, not only...

In his letters, the Apostle Paul speaks of the two Adams – the first Adam of the beginning and the second Adam, Jesus, of the new beginning, the man of...

In the story we tell tonight and through these Easter days, there’s a lot of movement up and down, especially by Jesus.  He goes up to Jerusalem for the Passover;...

The Cathedral of St Stephen This evening we are drawn deep into the mystic triad of the Mediterranean world – the grain, the grape and the olive.  The grain and...

None of us can remember life without the New Testament, it’s always been there. In this podcast series “The Words that Make the World” hosted by Archbishop Mark Coleridge, we...

I'm not normally inclined to quote myself, but I do so here today. Not long ago I was invited to preach at the funeral of Fr Bob Maguire, a well-known...