For Catholics it’s a unique experience: Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP carries the Blessed Sacrament through the streets of Sydney. Photo: Giovanni Portelli Should those who advocate freedom of speech and oppose cancel culture defend freedom of artistic expression, no matter how offensive? Support for freedom of speech does not mean that every form of expression is […]
Fr Eduardo Orilla is running this year’s City2Surf to raise funds for a perpetual Eucharistic adoration chapel at St Patrick’s parish, Kogarah. Photo: Supplied. When thousands of runners set off from Hyde Park for this year’s City2Surf on 9 August, Fr Eduardo Orilla will be running with a purpose that stretches far beyond the finish line […]
Cathedral of the Incarnation, Nashville Tn., July 25, 2026 A comedy about several young singles sharing accommodation, coffee, a couch, and their twenties. Sounds like the Nashville Dominican Sisters’ novitiate, but I have in mind the sitcom Friends, that ran for 236 episodes. In its final season, its six actors were drawing even bigger crowds […]
Nearly 400 faithful from parishes across Australia packed the Liverpool Catholic Club on 18 July for the Parish Renewal Conference, a day that organisers hope will be remembered less as a one-off event and more as the moment a new wave of evangelisation took hold in the Archdiocese of Sydney. Organised by the Parish Renewal […]
Dominican Sisters of St Ceclia Retreat, Motherhouse Nashville Tn., July 24, 2026 T. S. Eliot once observed that “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”[1] His point was not to encourage plagiarism and artistic theft, but rather […]
Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia Retreat, Motherhouse Nashville Tn., July 23, 2026 Jesus famously told stories: parables were in fact His preferred form of discourse (Mt 13:34-35; Mk 4:33-34; Lk 8:9-10). The word παραβολή (parabolē) is found nearly fifty times in the synoptic Gospels. Παρα (para), of course, means alongside as in parallel, and bolē […]
Jesus teaches, that the end to which God plants His Vine the Son, grafts us onto that vine, prunes us in our seasons, and sustains us with the grace that flows through His trunk, is that we might bear fruit. Photo: Magda Ehlers/Pexels.com. This is the edited text for the Homily for the Pontifical Mass […]
Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia Retreat, Motherhouse Nashville Tn., July 22, 2026 Forty years ago, I went out for the day with a former law professor of mine in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. I suggested we visit the convent of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart that is a real architectural gem. […]
Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia Retreat, Motherhouse Nashville Tn., July 21, 2026 Forty years ago, I went out for the day with a former law professor of mine in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. I suggested we visit the convent of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart that is a real architectural gem. […]
Bishop Richard Umbers celebrating Mass. PHOTOS: St Luke’s Parish, Revesby. About 400 parishioners and visitors gathered at St Luke’s Parish, Revesby, on 19 July to celebrate the feast of St Charbel, marking the third consecutive year the parish has honoured the beloved Lebanese saint with a major community celebration. Bishop Richard Umbers celebrated the 10am Mass before festivities continued […]
Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia Retreat, Motherhouse Nashville Tn., July 20 2026 It’s one of the most iconic lines in cinematic history. In the 1992 courtroom drama, A Few Good Men, Jack Nicholson plays the decorated base-commander Nathan Jessup as he is cross-examined by the callow Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee, portrayed by Tom Cruise. Relentlessly questioned […]
Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia Retreat, Motherhouse Nashville Tn., July 19, 2026 Born in 1504, he was named Antonio Ghislieri in baptism, Fra Michele in religion, Pope Pius V in office. He joined the Dominicans at 14 and was ordained priest at 24. He taught theology in Pavia for 16 years and was often Prior, […]
Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia Retreat, Motherhouse Nashville Tn., July 18, 2026 The 1911 novel The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett tells the story of Mary Lennox, a neglected and soured orphan sent to live with her reclusive uncle at Misselthwaite Manor on the Yorkshire moors.[1] There is an air of secrecy around her […]
Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia Retreat, Motherhouse Nashville Tn., July 17, 2026 “Put your affairs in order and get ready to die,” the prophet says in his rather unornamented way (Isa 38:1-8,21-22). It’s good advice for anyone, but especially a terminally ill person like Hezekiah. In response, the good king ‘goes on retreat’ like we […]
