E-News Vol 1 - No. 17

Recently I re-read one of my favourite books, Paul Tournier’s The Violence Inside. I first read it 25 years ago and I have never forgotten his claim that, “the weak are very conscious of their weakness and the powerful are rarely conscious of their strength.” (more)
 

The government continues to turn a blind eye to these horrendously unsafe working conditions. In the meantime many workers are having their arms and fingers chopped off at work. (more)

Watch an excerpt from The Hope Workers Centre DVD

"His integrity was hard and cutting as a diamond. Choosing solitude he acquired great public influence; teaching humility, he found himself obliged to correct popes and kings. (more)

I place a stone on my father’s grave and it reminds me of the void my father’s passing has created and the impression his life continues to make in my life. (more)

Columban Calendars are donated each year to prisons in Victoria. This is an excerpt from a letter sent by Sister Mary O'Shannassy S.G.S. Director of Catholic Prison Ministry Victoria. (more)

From the seclusion of his monastery in Kentucky, the Cistercian monk, Thomas Merton, who died 40 years ago, reached out to the men and women of his time with a wise and compassionate heart (more)

Fr Brian Gore has returned o Kabankalan on the Island of Negros in the Phillipines 21 years after being arrested ing 1982 for the murder of a local mayor (more)
Fr Brian Gore's new website www.negrosnine.com