Articles by Bishop Bill Wright

A Message from Bishop Bill Wright IMAGE Year in Review

A Message from Bishop Bill Wright

January 18, 2019

A great virtue of these Year in Review reports is that in their pages you will find quite close-up portraits of some of the people, activities and occasions that form the story of Maitland-Newcastle this year.

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Faith and Australia

November 03, 2018

‘What do you think God is asking of us in Australia?’ That’s the headline question for the National Plenary Council of 2020/21 and the starting point for the local consultations that are going on across the nation. It’s a good question. It asks us to try to put aside our pet peeves and opinions and to try to imagine how God sees things.

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Abroad thoughts from home

October 06, 2018

I have written previously about my recent time in Nigeria. When I had done what I went to do there, I travelled on to England for my annual leave - something I have done before but not for about 10 years. I am now going to take the great risk, with an Australian readership, of reflecting a little on some of the good things about Britain, why I feel so comfortable there and, to some extent, what I miss when I come home.

A Nigerian Journey IMAGE Aurora

A Nigerian Journey

September 03, 2018

On the night following the ordinations, at the farewell meal, Fr Chris said again that it was not possible to thank me enough for coming all this way to Africa to be with them. I assured him in reply that it was quite possible, and that he and the community had achieved that quantum of thanks several days earlier. I’d been told before leaving home that the welcome would be warm and the gratitude enormous. Never a truer word. 

Young Lives, Old Woes. IMAGE Aurora

Young Lives, Old Woes.

August 04, 2018

There is something that concerns me because I know I don’t really understand it and, worse, don’t have a clue what can be done about it. But it is apparently the issue for young people.

Paying some dues IMAGE Aurora

Paying some dues

June 09, 2018

I’ve just ticked over seven years as bishop, and I was out of action for the occasion. Flu. Like so many others.