Frank Brennan SJ, Rector, Newman College, The University of Melbourne, offered this homily for the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time and the 2020 National Day of Sorrow and Promise on October 25, 2020. Listen at https://soundcloud.com/frank-brennan-6/homily-251020 At the beginning of his new encyclical Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis speaks of his inspiration Francis of Assisi as […]
Rex Hackett, Lismore priest, reflects on the sufferings of the crucifixion of Christ in a meditation time he experienced on a retreat. So, Father most holy, we celebrate the memory of Christ, your Son, whom you led through suffering and death on the Cross to the glory of the resurrection and a place at your […]
Eric Hodgens, retired Melbourne priest, talks about a church in crisis but also in transformation. How will it take shape in a post COVID world? Some church groups are pressing for a post-pandemic opening up, others, who have already opened up, are sounding a lament as they find it is not business as usual. There […]
Ed Campion attended the Hunters Hill Convention of priests from across Australia in 1970 which spawned the idea of a national association of Catholic priests that would become the National Council of Priests (NCP) the following year. As NCP celebrates 50 years, Ed offers his reflections on the event first published in Report No 46, […]
Rose Marie Crowe offers a reflection on how we might reimagine Eucharist in light of the recent COVID-19 experience.
