- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneTruth is often stranger than fiction and that is certainly true when it comes to God. When the sense of the divine first glimmered in the human heart long ago...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneLike all the saints, Filippo di Neri – or Philip Neri as we known him – doesn't quite add up. There's a strangeness about him, a touch of paradox. He...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneOn this day of Pentecost we make a fuss about fire. We have the banners in the nave of the Cathedral; the ministers on the sanctuary are wearing fiery red....
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneWe know what happened on this day one hundred years ago at Anzac Cove. The facts have been much reported and photographed. But what's less clear is the meaning of...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneOn Good Friday morning, after the Stations of the Cross in the Cathedral, I had an encounter with a lady who had come to the Cathedral to protest, which is...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneOne of the great treasures of the Archdiocese of Brisbane is this precinct, standing as it does right at the heart of the Central Business District, the capital. Thank goodness...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneOnce upon a time, certainly before the rise of the nation state, the family was absolutely fundamental to human life in just about any of its forms. The family was...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneThe fact is that we don't know exactly when Jesus Christ was born. They didn't keep records back in those days and they wouldn't have known themselves on which day...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneThe Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary and she conceived by the Holy Spirit" ... So we say day by day in the Angelus. Yet the question is this...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneWhen called to give an account of himself, faced with those who say "Who are you?," John the Baptist echoes the prophet Isaiah in describing himself as a voice crying...
Homilies
Author: Archdiocese of Brisbane