Fr Michael Trainor

Monday, August 31

Academic, pastor, priest and contrarian

Retirement for many people can mean days of idling and enjoying a slower pace of life. Fr Michael Trainor, who stepped down from his role as the Lockley’s parish priest this month, is not one of them he told Richard Evans.

Global gift for all faiths

Lockleys parish priest Fr Michael Trainor is an advocate of education, interfaith dialogue, the importance of empathy and contemporising the Catholic faith.

Fr Michael Trainor.

Podcast series focuses on fraternity and unity

The South Australian Dialogue of the Roman Catholic and Uniting Churches has produced a series of podcasts aimed at making sense of a world fraught with suffering, unrest, tragedy and global suspicion.

Adelaide priest encouraged by inter-religious forum

Adelaide priest Father Michael Trainor was the only Australian to participate in a religious forum held in Indonesia this month.

Gizi's story a flicker of light in the darkness

Dr Ron Hoenig’s deep commitment to interfaith relations has its roots in German-occupied Hungary where his Jewish mother was protected by a young Christian municipal guard while her parents and four siblings were killed in Auschwitz.