Articles by Bishop Bill Wright

Things change. You’ll not get any disagreance from me! IMAGE Aurora

Things change. You’ll not get any disagreance from me!

December 06, 2017 Comments

When I first heard the word, which seems like only a year or so ago, I took it for a solipsism or rather, perhaps, one of those quasi-existent words that people use because they think they sound more impressive than the common alternative. But as people continued to seek my ‘agreance’ on this or that, I realised we had a new social phenomenon on our hands. Nonetheless, I suspected the word didn’t really exist.

BISHOP BILL WRIGHT: Things change. You’ll not get any disagreance from me! IMAGE Bishop Bill Wright

BISHOP BILL WRIGHT: Things change. You’ll not get any disagreance from me!

December 06, 2017

When I first heard the word, which seems like only a year or so ago, I took it for a solipsism or rather, perhaps, one of those quasi-existent words that people use because they think they sound more impressive than the common alternative. But as people continued to seek my ‘agreance’ on this or that, I realised we had a new social phenomenon on our hands. Nonetheless, I suspected the word didn’t really exist.

In remembrance IMAGE Aurora

In remembrance

November 01, 2017 Comments

I’ve never had ‘trick-or-treaters’ turn up at my place for Halloween. For most of my life that was not surprising because Halloween, like Valentine’s Day or the Super Bowl, was something known to us only from American TV shows.

A case of conscience IMAGE Aurora

A case of conscience

October 04, 2017 Comments

Last month in this column, I concluded that Catholics could make up their own minds as citizens on what they thought the law of the land could define as marriage. Not everyone agrees on that, of course.

BISHOP BILL WRIGHT: A case of conscience IMAGE Bishop Bill Wright

BISHOP BILL WRIGHT: A case of conscience

October 04, 2017

Last month in this column, I concluded that Catholics could make up their own minds as citizens on what they thought the law of the land could define as marriage. Not everyone agrees on that, of course.

Law and social change IMAGE Aurora

Law and social change

September 06, 2017 Comments

If you’re excited by legal changes that have social and moral significance, these are exciting times. There has not been so much on the political agenda, I’d say, since the ‘seventies. Then, having got past the Vietnam War, we seemed quite suddenly to have a raft of social change legislation.