ONLINE ARCHIVESummer 2018 – Vol. 33, No. 1
The Australian Confraternity of Catholic Clergy
# Journal
Consecrated religious in Australian parish life
This paper puts together some thoughts on how we as Religious and you as diocesan priests can collaborate, so that together, as Bishop Schneider reminded us, we can show the People of God the way to Heaven. Rather than an academic presentation, I feel this area is...
The war against Two Towers
Pied Beauty Glory be to God for dappled things — For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced — fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes,...
Radical Ecumenism: a new Catholic missal
On the First Sunday of Advent this year (29 November 2015), a new Missal of the Catholic Church was used for the first time in parishes of the Ordinariates in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States and Canada. It was an historic occasion with radical...
Vale, Sacerdos Magnus
Father Geoffrey James Taylor was “a single-minded servant of the Divine Master and Eucharistic Lord to whom so many, Anglican and Catholic, owe a huge debt of gratitude.” This tribute was offered some years ago by the Most Reverend Geoffrey Jarrett, Bishop of Lismore,...
The sacredness of the Eucharist in the teachings of the Fathers of the Church
Ever since apostolic times the Church has shown deep concern to offer a type of worship which would meet the exigency of God’s utter holiness. Therefore, she always prayed to God the Father, particularly in the Latin tradition, through Christ in the Holy Spirit. Our...
The Kerygma as the gateway to holiness
My brothers, we are all deeply aware that we are moving through a time in our society where its Christian underpinnings are increasingly being removed. We know that many even among our Catholic people no longer have a Christian mind. Many who would consider themselves...
The Priest as Instrument of Holiness and Truth
There is a story in the life of the Holy Curé of Ars that goes like this: St Jean Marie Vianney, was on his the way to Ars, his first assignment, when he came to a fork in the road. Not knowing how to continue, it so happened that a boy from Ars came along. The young...
Promoting a vocations culture in our schools
A few months ago, when speaking to a fellow priest about my chaplaincy at St Patrick’s College, he asked me if I had been speaking to the boys about priestly vocations. The promotion of vocations was certainly behind much of my efforts in regards to the College, but I...
Our Lady, Mother of Priests
In his Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation, Pastores Dabo Vobis, Pope St John Paul II dealt with the matter of “The Formation of Priests in the Circumstances of the Present Day.” Towards the end of that document he said this: Every aspect of priestly formation can be...