Salvation history in 800 words

Throughout eternity God lives a life of love – three Persons loving and being loved perfectly.

God chose to share the life of love with creatures who would be gifted with God’s attributes of intelligence and free will, the essentials for loving.

What’s core Catholicism and what’s cultural Catholicism?

Recently I gazed, with combined feelings of pity and annoyance, at a contemporary photo of a large group of priests.

What would Jesus do?

In the season of Easter, this is an apt question.

Mercy has ‘pitched its tent’

Mercy has travelled the roads of our diocese during this ‘Year of Mercy’. Mercy has “pitched its tent” at churches without a resident priest, to be present and available to the local people. Many have welcomed mercy into their lives.

Seeing God through the looking glass

“You look like a pig!”

The story goes that a young, strapping soldier blurted this out when he was passing through a village and saw Buddha sitting under a tree.

Putting on the habit of love and compassion

‘Lucie’. That’s the name embossed on the smart uniform she wears to work at St Nicholas Early Education, Newcastle West.