As staff and students in New Zealand prepare to begin the 2020 school year here’s a thought on the purpose of education, and a reflection on prayer in schools…

I’m a New Zealander living in New Zealand writing an Australia Day reflection. Our two nations are united by generations of friendship through good times and bad…

Pope Francis has named this Sunday, the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, as Word of God Sunday…

In gratitude to Roger Scruton for his work, and as a prayer for his eternal experience of the fulness of beauty, I share one of his best-known video teachings…

There is an old adage that we build our buildings and then our buildings build us. This is most true of a Catholic church…

I told them that that was an even better answer, but still I was looking for another even more correct response. The children really had their thinking faces on at that point…

We are not those who seek as much as we are those who have been found. And this central fact of our faith makes all the difference…

A New Year prayer from today’s first reading, set beautifully to music by John Rutter…

The scriptures given for today’s feast of the Holy Innocents presents us with two men, one a photocopy, the other an original…

“The greatest joy in life is to feel Jesus Christ alive and beating in the flesh of your own thought and your own heart. All the rest is a swift illusion or dung…

Instead of wondering whether diverse opinions and practices are right or wrong or is this or that expression of love appropriate, there needs to be another question…

The one who journeys with purpose is able to negotiate any obstacle. But the wanderer is forever rudderless, tossed by every whim of fashion in the sea of popular opinion…

A Grace before Dinner that you may find useful this Christmas…

In more recent years I have had to accept that God often uses people I don’t like too much as messengers…

The Opening Prayer of today’s Mass for the Fourth Sunday of Advent is the concluding prayer of the “Angelus…