God of life and love

Richard Francis (an alias) lives on the Bellarine Peninsula. It’s beauty has profoundly affected his thinking, as has his reading of de Chardin and Ilia Delio.

He rose in silence

Br Mark O’Connor FMS is a Marist Brother and Vicar for Communications, Parramatta Diocese.

Saint Vincent’s Church, Redfern: An artistic precinct and a sacred site

Steve Darmody is a retired carpenter/builder and a lay parishioner at St Vincent’s since 1991.

Fr Gerard Patrick Dowling OAM DE (1932 – 2023)

Kevin Dillon

Gerard, who was ordained in 1958, passed away on 26 November 2023, aged 91. Melbourne’s own ‘radio priest’ was farewelled on Thursday 7 December at St Patrick’s Cathedral, where more than a thousand family, friends, fellow clergy, former parishioners and colleagues gathered for the Requiem Mass. The following is a condensed version of the homily given on the occasion by Fr Kevin Dillon.

Our shrinking church

John Swann