Homilies

BASILICA OF SANTA MARIA SOPRA MINERVA, ROME, 4 AUGUST 2025 Male and female, tall and short, young and old, clerical and lay, alive or dead at the moment: sainthood comes […]

SFORZA CHAPEL, BASILICA OF SANTA MARIA MAGGIORE, 30 JULY 2025 Many years ago I saw a very beautiful image of The Virgin at Prayer in the Dominican church of St […]

ALTAR OF THE CHAIR, ST PETER’S BASILICA, ROME, 28 JULY 2025 You’ll have noticed the granite obelisk, reaching 41 metres up to the skies, in the middle of St Peter’s […]

BASILICA OF SANTA CROCE, FLORENCE, 23 JULY 2025 This Tempio dell’Itale Glorie (Temple of Italian Glories) boasts tombs and monuments of including the humanist-architect of Sta Maria Novella Alberti, the […]

METROPOLITAN DUOMO OF THE NATIVITY OF ST MARY, MILAN, 22 JULY 2025 We don’t know for sure which parts of the Mary-Mag Myth are really hers, but she got a […]

OUR LADY OF MT CARMEL PARISH, MT PRITCHARD, 13 JULY 2025 Today I am wearing the pallium, a three-finger-wide band of lambs’ wool, intimating the Good Shepherd carrying the lost […]

ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY, 6 JULY 2025 The first Hobbit film was released in 2012 and grossed over $1b at the box office. Gandalf the wizard tricks Bilbo the hobbit […]

ROSEBANK COLLEGE, 2 JULY 2025 The Guardian recently ran an article on ‘aura farming’—curating the coolest, most confident or most mysterious version of yourself.[1] Popularised by video games, TikTok and […]

ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY, 22 JUNE 2025 There was great joy last week when Pope Leo announced that the first ‘millennial’ saint, Carlo Acutis, will be canonised on 7th September. […]

ST MARTHA’S CHAPEL, LEICHHARDT, 17 JUNE 2025 ‘Demanding,’ ‘a perfectionist,’ ‘hard to work for’—these were the descriptions recently given by those who work for Jensen Huang, the Taiwanese-American CEO of […]