Addresses and Statements

There are in religion two contrary tendencies. The first focuses on the spiritual dimension of human beings. It regards the physical universe as confining and distracting, and emphasises God the pure spirit, the angels also, and the dead now released from bodily life.

‘I’m a servant.’ Such talk sticks a bit in our throats, makes us more than a bit uncomfortable, doesn’t it? A waiter or waitress OK. An airline steward, maybe, as long as I don’t have to look after a plane full of Aussies going to WYD. A nurse, sure.

Wow young Australia! What an awesome Aussie gathering this has been to introduce our World Youth Day week! We come together this week, young people with their lay leaders, pastors, and pope as a living-breathing, singing-dancing, praying-acting proof that the Catholic Church is alive and well.

Might I begin by congratulating the organisers of this twentieth annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life here at Georgetown

Welcome to St Mary’s Basilica for the Unveiling of the Armenian car-car Khachkar Cross to mark the 2015 commemoration here at St Mary’s of the centenary of the

Around this time of year, people often phone the cathedral or their parishes to ask what time the Midnight Mass will be. In fairness to them, they are not being stupid: the time of the “Mass at Midnight of the

The Slow Food movement began in the 1980s in response to the opening of a McDonald’s store near the Spanish Steps in Rome.

Thank-you Dean Richardson, Mr Toutounji and Mr Tobin. Your Eminences and Excellencies, Reverend Sirs and Ladies, Friends all: welcome to my place! It is a tribute to the kind of country Australia is that religious leaders, representatives

Thank you, Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, Dr Zimmerman, Teresa, ladies and gentlemen. It is a great pleasure for me to launch Archbishop Peter Comensoli’s In God’s Image: Recognizing the Profoundly