03 Dec 2016
HOMILY FOR LOURDES DAY MASS WITH ORDER OF MALTA – ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL

HOMILY FOR LOURDES DAY MASS WITH ORDER OF MALTA – ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL

In a speech in Doha billed as a critique of the foreign policy failures of the Bush and Obama eras, veteran New Yorker journalist Seymour Hersh alleged that the US military’s joint special operations command had been infiltrated by members of the Order of Malta and that these fanatics are modern-day crusaders who “aim to turn mosques into cathedrals”

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30 Oct 2016
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF MATER DEI CHURCH, BLAKEHURST 31st SUNDAY YEAR C

HOMILY FOR MASS FOR 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF MATER DEI CHURCH, BLAKEHURST 31st SUNDAY YEAR C

I don’t often quote the German philosopher, Frederick Nietzsche, as he was no friend of religion. He thought that all believers and especially Christians were weaklings for prizing mercy towards the poor, sick and ignorant, for talking of forgiving enemies, turning the other cheek, and so on, and for masking the nausea and disgust he believed we should feel about life.

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