Uncle Michael unashamedly wishes to communicate with nephews and nieces as well as a few good friends who see Science as the basis of many things. Faith in God is of little interest, or, simply for oldies like Nanna, Uncle Michael and Aunty Anne.
reedom to love’ was a major goal in this recent and sometimes hurtful Same Sex Marriage debate in Australia. The positive outcome for the ‘Yes vote’ reminds me of a homily by Fr Phil a couple of years ago in which he spoke so encouragingly of the concept of ‘Freedom’, in the Jesuit …
t is eight years since my first visit to our Secondary School NOSSEF at the Jesuit Mission in Railaco, and twelve years since St Canice’s built the first concrete-block classroom. At that time, shy students would often walk up to two hours every day to get to school. Music may have been in the children’s …
here do the lines for ‘good liturgy’ and ‘grand performance’ transect? Of course, my driven self strives to achieve both these objectives, and I’m grateful for the occasional opportunity to ‘perform’ and ‘do liturgy’ down at my local Jesuit parish of St Canice’s. ow, three months later, we celebrate the Feast of St Ignatius, …
n one west side street uptown in Manhattan we have a ‘church’ pronouncing in neon lights ‘Sin will find you out’. With pronouncements such as this, I could be cowering in fear of ‘fire and brimstone’; so counter-productive in my opinion. On another west side street, a little further downtown at St Francis …