- Author: Archdiocese of Brisbane
Homily from Mass for Religious to mark 175th Anniversary of the Sisters of Charity of Australia
31 May 2014The word charity, in contemporary English at least, gets a bad press. We even have an expression like " as cold as charity". Yet, regardless of the bad press, the... - Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneOn this fortieth day of the fifty-day Easter festival, we have heard one of the stories of the Risen Lord appearing to his disciples. These stories at the end of...
- Author: Archdiocese of Brisbane
Homily for Mass celebrating Archbishop Mark Coleridge's fortieth anniversary of ordination
17 May 2014The 18th of May 1974 was the 54th birthday of the then Archbishop of Kraków, Karol Wojtlya, who later happened to become Pope John Paul II, and in more recent times... - Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneOn this enormous island, with its endless coasts and waters, and in this most urbanised of all cultures, the beach occupies a very important place in the Australian psyche, not...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneJust recently I was on pilgrimage in the Holy Land and yet again I was struck by the topography of Jerusalem, the Holy City. By the topography I mean the...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneIn the middle of St Peter's square in Rome, there stands a great obelisk. It about four and half thousand years old and it originally stood in the temple of...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneIn the dark before dawn on a Friday in Lent, Michael Ernest Putney, fifth Bishop of Townsville, slipped peacefully into eternity. He became the first Bishop of the See to...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneIn recent days I have written a pastoral letter as bishops tend to do from time to time; a letter to the entire community of the Archdiocese, as we move...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneIt's all right for Jesus to say ‘I'm telling you not to worry about your life'. It wasn't quite so straightforward for the woman who we celebrate this morning. She...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneIn the famous story that we have just heard the priest and the Levite walk on the other side, turning their gaze away from the one lying in the ditch....
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Author: Archdiocese of Brisbane