Tag: Bishops

This is a book for bishops. I am one bishop who is grateful to have read it. It was a very beneficial source for personal reflection and offered much to ponder both from history and from current experience.

Last week’s column on how the Catholics in Australia survey participants rated the Australian bishops’ leadership touched a nerve. The Catholic Weekly’s Facebook page got...

One of the reasons I love doing research is that you find things out, and you can measure them. Sometimes you find things out...

Mary Magdalene was saved because she loved very much, a love so extraordinary that it is recorded in the Holy Scriptures. Her name is mentioned...

Australia's newest bishop rejects mere bureaucratic role, commits himself to bringing Jesus to the Church's flock at the grassroots.

Some Catholics starve to hear their shepherd's voice When Christ told the people that the sheep would know the shepherd's voice, it carried with it...

In my other life I teach something called ‘Social Responsibility in Action’, where I give a couple of lectures on whistleblowing. So I was very...

This does not give us an anaesthetic from our pain or a type of cocky remoteness from tribulations of the world- but it does unite us in hopeful solidarity while “in exile” with the Christ-focussed and grace-filled strength and love of the faithful Mother of the Covenant, Mary of Nazareth.

Don’t judge them too quickly on shutting churches Last week, I was sent a petition and asked to sign it. The petition, which I imagine many...

The irony is, when these great public victim vs victim debates rage, the people who argue the hardest often don't actually have any power to act.

https://youtu.be/cFFwxFTepYM Bishops pray in Rome for Indigenous communities Praying at the tomb of St Paul is an obligatory part of the 'ad limina' visits every bishop...

https://youtu.be/4jg8lzGf_gk The memory and witness of Romania's martyred bishops are a reminder that Christians are called to stand firm against ideologies that seek to stifle...