Despatch from a Dominican

Love: “If you love, you will get hurt and possibly killed; if you do not love, you are dead already.”...

Saviour is born: Hope, in the words of the philosopher Peter Geach, is the “virtue that preserves us alike from...

Helping others: “The preacher is not going to be too anxious about the state of his own soul, because his...

Pandemic confirmations: Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, poses for a group photo July 26, 2020, after confirmations at...

Kingdom of Heaven: “Remove from us the likeness of the world, on which we had been modelling ourselves, and make...

St Bernard: When the bones of the saint were examined in 1855 there was found amongst them a wooden tablet,...

Empty pews: Who are we to abandon, in a fit of pique, the mother who gave us the faith in...

Grace: “Our efforts, our struggles, our perseverance are not simply or even primarily our achievements; they are the work of...

God's mercy: " Christians who strive to live Christian lives and fail in the attempt – perhaps repeatedly – are...

Crucifixion: Christ on the Cross between the Two Thieves, by Peter Paul Rubens. DURING my days at university I worked...

Father's will: "If Jesus were to transform them into bread at the prompting of the devil, then His will would...

Preacher's role: Our preaching task is to make that truth actual, striking, appealing.  PREACHING Practice – the weekly highlight of...

Wrong pipe: "Once we had unearthed the problematic plumbing, we were perplexed to discover that it did not bear any...

Nativity: The seemingly random list of names at the beginning of Matthew’s Gospel is actually a royal genealogy in which...

Beyond death: "Our true citizenship, as Christians, is that of heaven." November is a spectacular month for the Church. We...

Holy calling: "The meaning of life is to be a saint, because a saint is someone who lives with God...

Self-discovery: When it comes to the question of our identity and why we are here on this earth, we do...

Called to serve: Joshua Whitehead and Brendan Gormley lie prostrate during their ordination Mass at St Stephen’s Cathedral on May...

Adoring: Each religious community is, hopefully, a font of living water diffusing the joy that is life in Christ into the...

Learning well: “The great secret, not often mentioned,” he said, “is that most of life is spent standing in the...

Picturesque: The beautiful Mt Lofty near Adelaide. ON Boxing Day last year I went for a hike up Mount Lofty. ...

Saviour: "If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord’, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from...

Precious artwork: St Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. WHEN a former Governor General was baptised at the age of 85...

Interstellar: "Love is the one thing that we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space." A FEW...

St Patrick's Cathedral: "He had simply been made aware by the attitude of the Catholic parishioners in the cathedral that...