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Bishop Ken Howell announced as New Bishop of Toowoomba
Pope Francis has announced this evening, on the feast of Mary Help of Christians, the appointment of Bishop Ken Howell as the seventh Bishop of the Diocese of Toowoomba. In...
Read MoreBrisbane Archdiocese reaches for the Summit
Over 600 delegates have started attending Summit 2023, the principal gathering of the Archdiocese of Brisbane in 2023. The three day event, being held at the Riverlife Centre in Brisbane's...
Read MoreHomily at the Opening Mass of the First Assembly of SYNOD24
The theme of this Synod, "I am making all things new", are words of the Risen Christ taken from the Book of Revelation (21:5). They were spoken into a world...
Read MoreHomily on the Death of Fr Gerald O'Collins SJ
I first met Gerald O'Collins in 1971 when I was a seminarian at Corpus Christi College Glen Waverley in what was then called first year Theology and he was a...
Read MoreHomily on the Solemnity of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop
Mary MacKillop was by all accounts a peaceful woman who, it has been said, "respected and loved people even when they were at their worst". Yet she was no stranger...
Read MoreHomily at the Sesquicentenary Celebration of the Cathedral of St Stephen
It was Winston Churchill who said, "We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us". He echoed the words of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, "We create our buildings and then...
Read MoreArchbishop Coleridge Anzac Day homily 2024
Warfare has changed dramatically in the span of time we remember on Anzac Day. Perhaps the greatest emblem of that change was the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima...
Read MoreHomily at the Easter Vigil
A large stone was rolled across the entrance of the new rock-hewn tomb where Jesus was laid. It was the custom to seal a tomb of this kind, not only...
Read MoreHomily on Good Friday
In his letters, the Apostle Paul speaks of the two Adams - the first Adam of the beginning and the second Adam, Jesus, of the new beginning, the man of...
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