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 […]
Kate Williamson spent decades negotiating. Multi-million-dollar construction contracts, legal clauses, the fine print of the corporate world. She was good at it. But what she couldn’t negotiate away was the ache of a question she couldn’t even name. “It’s taken me a long time to find the faith,” she says. “I’m not sure why. But here we are.” Kate grew up on […]
Fr Mark Anderson celebrating Mass. Photo: Giovanni Portelli. Two Sydney parishes welcomed new parish priests in June, with installation Masses celebrated by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP at St John the Baptist Parish, Bonnyrigg Heights, and St Michael’s Parish, Lane Cove. On 14 June, Fr Christopher Sharah FSF was installed at Bonnyrigg Heights, marking the beginning […]
Philippe de Champaigne (1602–1674; born Brussels, Belgium; died Paris, France), The Visitation, 1643–48. Oil on canvas; 114.5 × 88.5 cm, 142.2 × 113 × 12.4 cm (frame). Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund (y1994-17) When Ranin Kanno describes the gap that inspired Created in Love, Fertility and God’s Plan, a first of its kind […]
Dominican Sisters’ of St Cecilia Retreat, Motherhouse Nashville Tn., July 12, 2026 The 17th-century German polymath, Gottfried Leibniz, has been compared in sheer intellectual range with his compatriot, the Dominican St Albert the Great. Leibniz wrote works in philosophy and theology, ethics and politics, law and history, philology and music, economics and statistics, library science […]
