When my grandfather died in August, he was holding my hand. In the other, he had a notebook. His gentle, sloping scrawl filled the pages with handwriting as familiar to me as my own.
It is somewhat astonishing to discover from this autobiography that JD Vance, the vice president of the United State of America, and arguably the second most powerful man in the world, has been a politician for just three and a half years
Recently I came across the following quote: “The novelist and moral philosopher Iris Murdoch, in her work on moral philosophy The Sovereignty of Good, writes, ‘Prayer is properly not petition, but simply an attention to God which is a form of love’.”
I once read a parish newsletter announcing an upcoming holy day of obligation. The notice itself was unremarkable, but one phrase caught my attention. We were invited to celebrate a holy day "of privilege and obligation".
Editorial
With the Therry Theatre’s recent production of Jesus Christ Superstar, I’m reminded of seeing the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice production at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre back in 1992.
Opinion
I was at a confirmation recently and someone asked “Why are people so angry these days?" It was the kind of question that stops you. Not because it is unanswerable, but because it is so honest and because the person asking it clearly already knew that something had shifted.
Local
One Wednesday lunchtime a few weeks ago a 78-year-old man walked into reception at the Catholic Diocesan Centre on Wakefield Street.
My dear sisters and brothers in Christ, each year, one of the interesting tasks that befalls to the organising committee of the Marian Procession is to find an image of the Blessed Virgin. Look at the image that our talented Chancery Office team have created for today, its world-wide debut.
Qwayne Guevara, who will host a Synod formation session in Adelaide on the topic of Communion and Co-Responsibility in a Fragmented World on Wednesday 6 May, is quite brilliant on organisation.
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