Archbishop Mark Coleridge has issued a message ahead of the final hearing into the Catholic Church at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Transcript: By now the Royal Commission into the institutional abuse of the...

The Year of Mercy has come to an end, and I want to thank all who helped to make the Jubilee a gift to us all - Pope Francis for offering it to the whole Church, but also the many who have conceived and organised the many activities that have been part...

In Rome the Year of Mercy began on 8 December last year. But that was hardly realistic here in the Antipodes, with the rush to Christmas through December and then the January lull. We opened the Door of Mercy in the Cathedral on the Third Sunday of Advent,...

As we approach Christmas this year the world seems a real mess. Terrorism, the refugee crisis, climate change, economic woes, political turmoil and so on it all goes. But in one way or another the world has always been a mess - it certainly was when Jesus...

At the recent Synod of Bishops, there was a lot of talk about mercy; it's become the key-note of Pope Francis' ministry. Two other words often heard in Rome were closely related to mercy. The first was "accompaniment"; the second was "discernment". "Accompaniment"...

By the time you see this I will be in Rome and unpacking my bags for the Synod of Bishops on the Family in the Modern World. I've worked very hard to prepare for it and, now that I'm here, I'm looking forward to it very much. People keep asking me what...

The forty days of Lent find us on a journey from last year's first session of the Synod on marriage and the family to the second session later this year which I will attend. In recent times and in places like Australia, there's been intense, even excessive...

Christmas always evokes a very particular time and place - the Middle East a little more than two thousand years ago. This Christmas, we think of that place at this time. For the Christians of that region where the Word was made flesh, where God became...

Dear brothers and sisters, Marriage has been much on the Church's mind in recent times. The first of the two sessions of the Synod of Bishops on marriage has recently been held in Rome and the second will follow next year. In another sense, marriage is...

Pentecost is all about unleashing new energy - wild fire and wild wind. The first disciples certainly needed new energy as they cringed behind closed doors after the death of Jesus. They'd seen him die and thought they might be next to go. But not even...