A Parable of the Voice
ALLAN DRUMMOND
Students in South Sudan are more likely to know the story of the Tower of Babel than are kids in Australia.
How to vote on the Voice
FRANK BRENNAN SJ
This article was published in The Catholic Weekly on March 17, 2023, and is reprinted here with kind permission of the author and the editor of The Catholic Weekly.
Eye of the heart enlightened
Sarah Bachelard is an Anglican priest and theologian based in Canberra. She is an honorary research fellow at the Australian Catholic University, with special interests in philosophy, ethics and spirituality. She is the founder and leader of Benedictus Contemplative Church, an ecumenical worshipping community with a practice of silent mediation at its heart, and is a member of The World Community for Christian Meditation. We reprint this article from the Service for the Opening of Parliament, 6 February 2023, with the kind permission of Sarah.
When the well is nearly dry
Terry Fewtrell is a resident of Canberra and active in Concerned Catholics Canberra Goulburn. He is a retired public servant and consultant and the author of George, Elise and a Mandarin – Identity in early Australia, highly commended in the 2018 ACT Literary and Publishing Awards.
Afghanistan needs nuns
Frank O'Shea currently lives in retirement at Point Cook, Victoria and adds, for the record, his teaching career (mathematics, mainly) was in a DLS school (Waterford) for five years, CB Chatswood, Sydney for three years, and Marists (Dublin and Canberra) 32 years. He would like to think he was part of a worthy endeavour.
