The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

“PLEASE, we are human … So please, please, consider and treat us as human beings,” is the plea of a Sri Lankan refugee languishing in detention in Brisbane on hearing the news that the Australian Government could take away his mobile phone. Raj is a Tamil refugee, a businessman from Sri Lanka who Australia has held in immigration detention for ... Read More »

I ATTENDED a first communion recently and was bemused to see a dozen mobile phones and cameras held aloft and flashing, at critical times during the Mass. It’s not that I haven’t seen it before, or even joined the parish paparazzi myself. It’s just the disobedience thing. At the beginning of the Mass the children’s catechist specifically asked the congregation ... Read More »