February 9, 2020 When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Wise Men, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Wise Men. Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning,Rachel...
December 3, 1919 Australia currently is in the grip of a terrible drought. When we travelled to Victoria in October we drove firstly from Rockhampton to Dubbo, a town in central western NSW. That part of the trip was a 1,000 kms. Over the whole distance there was not one crop of anything in evidence. A barren landscape. There has been no planting for 12 months over this vast area. There has been...
September 30, 2019 We are creators, innovators, builders. We are teachers, philosophers, deep thinkers, researchers. We are scientists, farmers, machine operators, technicians, IT specialists. We are pastors, counsellors, administrators. We can do it. We have done it. We used do it. We wish we could still do it. We were good at it.Comes a time when we cannot do it. Not like we used to.Reduced in...
July 23, 2019 God created man in the image of himself,In the image of God he created him,Male and female he created them So it is written in the opening chapter of the ScripturesBut as we know, this is not the full truth. Down through the centuries, in all societies both ancient and new, there has been – and continues to be – a wider gender spread than male and female. If God created...
March 1, 2019 George Pell had powerful friends. The first was (Sir) James O’Collins the Bishop of Ballarat. He saw in Pell a future Church champion and was responsible for moving Pell from the Catholic Seminary in Werribee to the prestigious international Vatican seminary in Rome, the Pontifical Urban University. This gave Pell his first whiff of life in Rome and he thrived on it. In 1966 Pell...
In March 1983 Pope John Paul II stood on an airport tarmac in Managua Nicaragua, shock his finger at and publicly rebuked a white-haired man kneeling before him. This moment was covered live around the world. The man kneeling was Ernesto Cardenal, Catholic Priest, world-renowned poet and Minister for Culture in the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. He was kneeling in welcome of the Pope. The...