Unconformed to the Age

by | Oct 12, 2024 | Newsletter

A couple of weeks ago I received a humbling invitation from Professor Tracey Rowland to launch her latest book, Unconformed to the Age: Essays in Catholic Ecclesiology. The book launch will be held at 7pm this Wednesday at St Peter’s Catholic Church in Toorak....

What God has united

by | Oct 5, 2024 | Newsletter

Jesus blesses the newly-wed couple at Cana.The Marriage Feast at Cana (c. 1672) by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo The Lord’s teaching on marriage in this Sunday’s Gospel is as counter-cultural today as it was in His own day. In first-century Judaism, marriage was not...

Gehenna and the Catholic teaching on Hell

by | Sep 29, 2024 | Uncategorized

A depiction of Israelites offering sacrifice to Moloch A map of Jerusalem showing Gehenna to the south Homily for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) Jesus frequently used physical realities to explain and transmit spiritual realities. Jesus compared the...

The Son of Man and the Kingdom of God

by | Sep 21, 2024 | Uncategorized

Gerhard van Honthorst, Christ before the High Priest (c. 1617) According to the gospels, the title that Jesus most frequently used to describe Himself was “the Son of Man”. Jesus took the title “Son of Man” from truly amazing prophecies in the Old Testament book of...

Take up your Cross

by | Sep 14, 2024 | Newsletter

Titian, Christ Carrying the Cross (c. 1565) Jesus called the people and his disciples to him and said, ‘If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me. For anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but...