The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

IN a simple prison chapel, chaplain Fr Tony Girvan celebrates Mass with inmates at Maryborough Correctional Centre for the final time during the Year of Mercy, delivering a missionary message “of revealing God’s love to all people”. “They are loved and we are called to preach the Gospel through the way we love each other,” Fr Girvan said. “For someone ... Read More »

WHEN Fr Tony Girvan speaks to prisoners he doesn’t ask what they have done, only what they can become. “I go in as a witness to Christ,” he said. “That’s what Christ saw in everyone – not what they’ve done wrong but what potential they can bring to the Kingdom of God. “It won’t fully be the Year of Mercy ... Read More »