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Peter and Paul
We’ve changed Prime Ministers. We’ve changed Commanding Officers in Afghanistan. We’re not in the World Cup. Changes seem to be in the wind. The point I am making is that for me there are two reliable people who never change – that’s Peter and Paul who’s Anniversary Feast is celebrated this weekend. Here’s my reflection: [...]
Mutual respect and obligation
What happened in Derry in 1972 was both unjustified and unjustifiable. Fourteen innocent people died as a result of that State’s collective injustice and immorality. Not prosecuting the soldiers involved may have to be the price paid for restorative justice to temper retributive justice. An Australian soldier wasn’t prosecuted in Afghanistan recently because money compensation [...]
Beating hearts
A desperate working mother told how she is enduring her worst nightmare – living with her two children in the back seat of her car. A day in the life of Michelle, Connor, 11 and Mikayla 6 goes like this: Wakes up and uses bathrooms at a shopping centre. Eats breakfast in her car from [...]
Corpus Christi, Christ Incorporated
My colleague, Ernie Smith, was parish priest of West St. Kilda’s Sacred Heart Parish 30 years ago. While I and my team were trying to work what to do for the poor here in South and Port Melbourne, Ernie and his team were actually doing it. Sacred Heart parish buildings were co-opted by Ernie to [...]
Trinity
This weekend provides Trinity Sunday for catholics. Trinity is a foundational insight, aka a “dogma”, intellectually researched by theologians and endorsed by bishops during 2000 years AD/CE. It’s, also, a formula used as a sign of the cross traced on oneself or directed towards others, usually by clerics. But, I like to see Trinity as [...]
Pentecost and Knives
Read last week’s paper: One late term abortion every day occurs in a particular Melbourne clinic. Fifty four “children” died after surviving “the procedure”. The figures are contained in the recently released 2007 annual report of the Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity. The report said the medical world was divided on [...]
The New Tribe
THE NEW TRIBE Pentecost invites catholics to watch their language (like Chef Ramsay). Does anyone understand what we’re saying? Amongst ourselves, do we understand what we are saying? With Catholicism there seems to be two tribes – the traditionalists and the modernists. Within the circle of 3 main “believe in one God” religions (monotheistic) some [...]
Disaster
Here’s another broad hint that our local situation is not disastrous so long as we stick together in a relational economy with needs driven budget. “A Country Where The Earth Moves Fr, Dan Harding writes from Santiago that it is only now that the true picture of damage from the tsunami is becoming clear. Many [...]
The undeserving poor?
Startled by recent comment on news channel that “social justice” is a subversive concept, needing to be replaced quickly, for the good of society, presumably conservative, by “equal justice”. Lots of that angst around just now. Much concern about how to take care of deserving poor working families, as well as provide safety net for [...]
Life before death
Thought I’d pinch half of Jesuit Priest Andy Hamilton’s Eureka Street article on Carl Williams’ death in custody. Heading is provocatively, “The dignity of Carl Williams”. Continues: “The death of Carl Williams has predictably been covered as if it were an episode of Underbelly. It comes complete with reminders of past episodes, pictures of central [...]
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