We know the first Pentecost happened in Jerusalem, but no-one knows where exactly in the city the Holy Spirit came upon the disciples.  There’s a tradition, however, that it happened...

In my seventy-fifth year, as I move to the end of my working life as priest and bishop, I speak words of farewell to the man who more than any...

The Cathedral of St Stephen, Brisbane On a calm spring day many years ago I made my first visit to one of the great war cemeteries of northern France, near...

The Cathedral of St Stephen The Gospels are full of gaps and silences.  There are so many things we would like to know but about which the evangelists say nothing....

The Cathedral of St Stephen In the time of Jesus, foot-washing was the most menial of tasks, and it fell to the lowest ranking servant, the lowest of the low....

The Cathedral of St Stephen At times we call this celebration the Mass of the Oils; and it is about oil.  But it’s not just about oil, because if it...

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...