E-News Vol. 2 No. 12

It’s an irony of life that when we are successful we believe that God must be on our side and when our works fail then we despair and feel deserted by God. (more)

Does Professor Lovat wish us to believe that it was the ‘institutionalisation’ of Christianity that caused the Coptic Christians of Egypt to be conquered by the colonialist forces of Arab Muslims in the middle of the seventh century? (more)

I continued with the Eucharist, maintaining as much dignity as I could whilst every few seconds slapping at little blood-suckers feasting on my exposed parts. (more)

I can honestly say that I have never felt in danger as a Columban missionary priest in Pakistan. I choose to be clearly and publicly seen and known as a priest. I am obviously a foreigner but I am obviously a priest. (more)

If he is genuinely poor, he’ll never be able to get the money back to you. You thus lose your money and worse still, you lose a friend. (more)

One thing I realized was that the role of `being a priest' had often blinded me to seeing my real self. Seven years training to become a priest, followed by years of trying to be a good one and staying one, had somehow twisted my thinking. (more)

An Australian Catholic Response to Climate Change Lecture with Fr Charles Rue SSC in Melbourne. (more)
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