Homilies

In these past few days much as been said about Christmas. Sadly, almost none of it has been about Jesus Christ, the Ete ...

When I was about ten years of age, my grandmother gave me a book. On the inside of the cover was written, “In reading l ...

Over the past week I have been reflecting upon this Mass in which Samuel French will be ordained to the responsibility o ...

Bibliographies from the time of the early Christian Church are either incredibly detailed or rather vague. The former is ...

There are some very worrying developments in our global village. As Pope Francis reminds us in his Encyclical Fratelli ...

Without a doubt, no one could have imagined that we would be celebrating the Chrism Mass in September. And yet, these a ...

La Planète des singes, known in English as Planet of the Apes, is a science fiction novel written by French author Pierr ...

Over the past few weeks, I have received several letters from people requesting that I note in the baptismal register th ...

In October this year, we will mark the 10th anniversary of the canonisation of Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop. She is ...

Life as we know it is not as we knew it. At least that is what some are saying. To be sure, our circumstances of life ...

At Terrigal, on the Central Coast in our Diocese, there is a beautiful War Memorial on the foreshore. On the side of th ...

By modern Australian standards, 100 years is a relatively long period of time. In the Church, where we measure history ...